Questions tagged [willpower]
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Does willpower depend on the amount of glucose in the body?
How strong is the evidence for the argument made in Willpower by Baumeister and Tierney?
Basically willpower (or better: "self-control") is supposed to be proportional to the amount of glucose in ...
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Is there a benefit to "resting your brain" for a significant period of time?
I had an intense quarter at school where I was studying and working pretty much all the time. Over winter break, I had many grand intentions of studying on my own and learning what I wanted to learn. ...
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