Leslie G. Baehr

Making The Complex Captivating

How to improve willpower? Feed it.

Los Angeles Times
Self-control is like a muscle that must be exercised. Keep using it so that it will become routine. 
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Bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be is often exhausting. To become fitter, we need to keep from blowing off the gym. And to do that, we need willpower.

Children who have the self-control to resist a marshmallow now in order to receive two later generally have better SAT scores and a lower adult body mass index. But as adults, why is it often so difficult to hold out for the grown-up equivalent of the double marshmallow?

The answer could lie with our misconceptions about willpower…

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