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Better Than Willpower
Willpower, reason, and executive-functioning skills all seem like ingredients in the recipe for success. So why, then, have so many of us already abandoned our New Year’s resolutions, and it’s not even February yet? According
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Sequential Options Prompt Future Thinking, Boost Patience
Framing choices in terms of a sequence of events can help us exercise patience by prompting us to imagine the future.
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The myth of self-control
Vox: As the Bible tells it, the first crime committed was a lapse of self-control. Eve was forbidden from tasting the fruit on the tree of knowledge. But the temptation was too much. The fruit
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Books to Check Out
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth; Scribner, May 3, 2016 Honor Bound: How a Cultural Ideal Has Shaped the American Psyche by Ryan P. Brown, Oxford University Press, 2016. Realist Inquiry
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A Simple, Science-Backed Trick to Control Your Holiday Spending
Inc.: The comedown after the holidays can be rough. Some suffer in the grim January weather, others are shocked by the number on the scale after all the festivities, but for many folks the worst
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Willpower (or Lack of It) Is the Wrong Way to Think About Weight
New York Magazine: When you succeed at eating healthy foods and avoiding junk, you probably attribute the bulk of your success to your ability to resist unhealthy impulses, the sheer power of your mighty will.