> The main assumption in this article is that "ego depletion" is real. It may not be, see Wikipedia [1]. I think your focus is slightly off the mark here. The

> The main assumption in this article is that "ego depletion" is real. It may not be, see Wikipedia [1]. I think your focus is slightly off the mark here. The problem is that people are being given mentally intensive tasks that are treated as mentally trivial, so their cognitive capacity gets drained invisibly. Your brain can absolutely get tired, and when it does, it's very hard to perform cognitive tasks. It's not ego depletion, it's exhaustion from mental work.