Andrew Huberman· PhD
the study concluded that if you have to resist one thing and it's a hard thing to resist well then you have less air quotes here resistance in you willpower to engage in another difficult task subsequently
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the study concluded that if you have to resist one thing and it's a hard thing to resist well then you have less air quotes here resistance in you willpower to engage in another difficult task subsequently
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let's think about the bow Meister data on Willpower as a limited resource
they all generally follow the same contour and that General Contour is as follows bow meister and colleagues and now many other Laboratories have done experiments where they bring human subjects into the laboratory and those human subjects have to do something that requires mental effort or energy AKA willpower