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…willpower is the single most important keystone habit for individual success.
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Willpower isn’t just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired as it works harder, so there’s less power left over for other things. – Mark Muraven
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…how willpower becomes a habit: by choosing a certain behavior ahead of time, and then following that routine when an inflection point arrives.
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You have a finite amount of willpower that becomes depleted as you use it. – Roy Baumeister
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Keeping changes small and expectations low is how you design around fair-weather friends like motivation and willpower.
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Willpower decreases from morning to evening.
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…willpower alone is hard, and hard is often impossible to sustain.
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…willpower, like a muscle, becomes fatigued from overuse but can also be strengthened over the long term through exercise.
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Ultimately, self-control lets you relax because it removes the stress and enables you to conserve willpower for the important challenges.
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Emotional control is uniquely difficult because you generally can’t alter your mood by an act of will.
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