A good response to people like Schopenhauer is: "Not everyone has an ordinal complex, Mr Freud, just you." Willpower is absolutely a muscle that needs to be cu

A good response to people like Schopenhauer is: "Not everyone has an ordinal complex, Mr Freud, just you." Willpower is absolutely a muscle that needs to be cultivated over the long term, as is every other character trait. I don't think people realize this, but it only takes about 2-3 months of hard, conscious effort to build a habit. On the scale of a lifetime, that is such a short time to make a change in your character. Unfortunately, it can take as little as 2 weeks to break a habit.