If you narrowly define willpower as impulse control the article and many comments here are spot on, but that’s not what willpower is. Willpower is better defin

If you narrowly define willpower as impulse control the article and many comments here are spot on, but that’s not what willpower is. Willpower is better defined as presence. More specifically it is a knowledge of self in the present. For example high willpower in the cerebellum allows awareness without a separate cognitive effort of where are your hands and feet are right now and what they are doing. Impulse control in the cognitive sense of desire regulation suggested by the article is a limited example of cognitive self-awareness and possibly thought of as deliberation. In that sense impulse control is just one of many benefits of increased willpower. Increased willpower has many benefits from increased motor-coordination, increased effectiveness of interpersonal engagement, career management, and even data/trend analysis. Willpower is perhaps the defining characteristic of perceived intelligence bias in the absence of a formal intelligence measure. See volition https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volition_(psychology) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volition_(psychology)