Chapter 12 Flashcards
What is the best predictor of a leader’s success?
Self-control
Integrity
Willpower
Self-discipline
Integrity
What is a foundational strength?
Self-control
Integrity
Willpower
Self-awareness
Self-control
What is key to well-being in life?
Self-control
Integrity
Willpower
Self-awareness
Self-control
How much energy does the brain consume?
less than 2%
more than 18%
more than 20%
more than 30%
more than 20%
What is our self-discipline dependent on?
Self-control
Integrity
Willpower
Self-awareness
Willpower
How do you master self-control?
Keep your willpower high in energy
Conserve your willpower
Save your willpower for the tougher and more demanding decisions
All of the above
All of the above
What do we use willpower to exercise self-control of?
Thoughts
Emotions
Impulses and performance
All of the above
All of the above
Which (from above) is especially difficult to control?
Thoughts
Emotions
Impulses and performance
All of the above
Emotions
How can we affect emotional control?
What we think about or how we behave
By altering our mood
By avoiding impulses
All of the above
What we think about or how we behave
What leaves us more prone to serious decision fatigue?
By attempting to alter our mood
By avoiding impulses
By pursuing more than one thing at a time
By forcing ourselves to be happy
By pursuing more than one thing at a time
Where does our willpower reside? Cerebellum Hypothalamus Anterior cingulate cortex Subconscious
Anterior cingulate cortex
What does our brain need energy to pursue?
Self-control
Integrity
Willpower
Self-discipline
Self-discipline
What are neurotransmitters?
Fuel for our brain
Chemicals that our brain cells use to send signals
Energy located in our anterior cingulate cortex
Glucose
Chemicals that our brain cells use to send signals
What calls out for sweets when we have more demand for self-control? Self-control Integrity Willpower Self-awareness
Willpower
What should you do when you’re physically or mentally stressed? Decrease your glucose Get more rest Eat healthy Keep your glucose up
Keep your glucose up
Why are sugar spikes dangerous?
It’s promptly followed by a crash
It can turn the most disciplined person into an indecisive blob
It creates ill-tempered coworkers
All of the above
It’s promptly followed by a crash
What should you do to maintain steady self-control?
Eat more vegetables and foods with glycemic index
Get 6 to 8 hours of rest each night
Consume more caffeine
All of the above
Eat more vegetables and foods with glycemic index
Why should you save your glucose for your immune system?
So you won’t crash once your healthy
It automatically extracts what it needs to defeat the microbe, leaving what’s left for brainpower
If you have too much glucose, you’re susceptible to diabetes
To maintain steady self-control
It automatically extracts what it needs to defeat the microbe, leaving what’s left for brainpower
What occurs when sleep deprivation impairs the processing of glucose?
You become physically stressed
You become mentally stressed
It produces immediate negative consequences for self-control
All of the above
It produces immediate negative consequences for self-control
What do many police managers, who have poor glucose intake, do with raw willpower?
Function with little sleep
Have no action plan
Fight decision fatigue
All of the above
All of the above
What is decision fatigue the dangerous downside of when making decisions? Lack of sleep Not enough glucose Insufficient cerebral energy Too many activities at once
Insufficient cerebral energy
What is the link between decision making and willpower?
Decision making depletes your willpower, and once your willpower is depleted, you’re less able to make correct decisions
When you’re physically and mentally tired, it affects your willpower which in turn affects your decision making
When you’re willpower is depleted, you suffer from decision fatigue
All of the above
Decision making depletes your willpower, and once your willpower is depleted, you’re less able to make correct decisions
When is the reluctance to forfeit options become more pronounced?
When your glucose is too low
When your willpower is too low
When you have a lack of sleep
When you are malnourished
When your willpower is too low
When do leaders look for ways to postpone or evade decisions?
When your glucose is too low
When your willpower is depleted
When you have a lack of sleep
When you are malnourished
When your willpower is depleted
What can cause “cognitive miser”?
When your glucose is too low
When your willpower is too low
When you have a lack of sleep
When you are malnourished
When your willpower is too low
What does it mean to avoid compromises?
Your cutting your options
Your forfeiting options
“Cognitive miser”
You have low willpower
“Cognitive miser”
What does a tired leader seek? Quickest option Most available option Easiest option All of the above
All of the above
What is another term for self-control? Self-regulation Self-discipline Willpower Self-awareness
Self-regulation
When is having goals frustrating and a wasteful energy drain?
Having too many goals
Having conflicting goals
When there is no purpose to the goals
Both a and b
Both a and b
What happens if you have too many goals? You worry a lot You get less done You generate negative emotions All of the above
All of the above
What is the main thing about short-term and long-term goals?
You need self-control to accomplish them
They show a clear connection between the goals and the actions needed to achieve them
They both use your subconscious mind to make a plan
All of the above
They show a clear connection between the goals and the actions needed to achieve them
How should the action required to attain a goal be expressed? In specific terms In a To-Do list In generalities With individual imagination
In generalities
What part of the mind makes a plan-like time, place, and opportunity? Conscious Subconscious Neurotransmitters Self-discipline
Conscious
What allows our brain to relax and preserve energy? Making a To-Do list Making a To-Don’t list Making a plan Plenty of rest
Making a plan
What is the first step in self-control? Monitoring our behavior Making a list Cutting your options Setting a goal
Setting a goal
Why did self-awareness evolve?
We are more prone to adopt traits that improve survival and reproduction
We are more prone to adopt traits that make us feel good
It assures self-regulation
It’s a process by whereby we compare ourselves to standards- self-regulating standards
It assures self-regulation
What does self-awareness involve?
Comparing ourselves to our ideas of what we might, or should, or could be
Self-regulation
Monitoring our behavior by developing strategies, tactics, and technology
Self-control
Comparing ourselves to our ideas of what we might, or should, or could be
In which step do we develop strategies, tactics, and technology to make us more self-aware? Monitoring our behavior Making a list Cutting your options Setting a goal
Monitoring our behavior
What is required to monitor and then change our personal or job-related behavior to meet those self-imposed standards?
Willpower
Self-awareness
Self-discipline
Self-regulation
Willpower
What is useless without willpower? Integrity Self-awareness Self-discipline Self-regulation
Self-awareness
How much of our self-awareness is made up from our DNA? 10% 20% 40% 50%
DNA - 50%
“Circumstances - 10%
Our choices - 40%”
What cannot exist without self-awareness?
Self-regulation
Our goals
Monitoring our goals
All of the above
All of the above
What are you looking for if you look at how far you’ve come? Movement Ambition Contentment Well-being
Contentment
What do you want if you focus on the path ahead of you?
Movement
Ambition
Contentment
Both a and b
Both a and b
What is the fourth strength of a strength-based leader? Movement Ambition Contentment Well-being
Well-being
What must we include when we monitor and measure our progress in achieving our goals?
Use of our time
State of our emotions
How we’re dealing with the demands made on us to change or not change
All of the above
All of the above
How do you strengthen the “will” in your willpower?
“Why” versus “how” and social support
“Why” versus “how” and emotional support
By asking “why” and having social support
Self-quantification and framework
“Why” versus “how” and social support
