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Willpower:
…a narrow, concrete, here-and-now focus works against self-control, whereas a broad, abstract, long-term focus supports it.
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Willpower:
…research suggests that being alone in the world is stressful. Loners and lonely people tend to have more of just about every kind of mental and physical illness than people who live in rich social networks.
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Willpower:
A personal goal can seem more real once you speak it out loud, particularly if you know the audience will be monitoring you.
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Willpower:
…resolutions [are] more likely to be kept if they [are] made in the presence of other people, especially to a romantic partner.
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Willpower:
…hyperbolic discounting: We can ignore temptations when they’re not immediately available, but once they’re right in front of us we lose perspective and forget our distant goals.
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Willpower:
Once you’re committed to following a bright-line rule, your present self can feel confident that your future self will observe it, too.
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186 |
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Willpower:
…your belief becomes a form of self-control: a self-fulfilling mandate. I think I won’t, therefore I don’t.
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Willpower:
People with high self-esteem are more willing to act on their beliefs, to stand up for what they believe in, to approach, others, to risk new undertakings.
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Willpower:
High self-esteem seems to operate like a bank of positive emotions, which furnish a general sense of well-being and can be useful when you need an extra dose of confidence…
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Willpower:
Forget about self-esteem. Work on self-control.
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