Robert Carter III, PhD, MPH, is a physiologist who studies what happens to the human body and brain when effort disappears, and what it takes to get capability back. He spent two decades as an Army research physiologist studying how people perform under extreme heat and stress, work that produced more than a hundred peer-reviewed publications. A Harvard Yerby Fellow in epidemiology, a member of the inaugural class of Gates Millennium Scholars, and a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. Army War College, he is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Institute of Stress and holds adjunct appointments at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Azusa Pacific University Global, and other universities. With his wife, Dr. Kirti Salwe Carter, he co-authored The Morning Mind, named one of the best self-help books of 2019 by Forbes, and the forthcoming The Convenience Trap: How to Regain Control in a World of Instant Gratification.