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> If you're exerting willpower to avoid the candy bowl on your desk, you're actively engaging in an activity that occupies some amount of your time and attentio
by trealira 2y ago
> If you're exerting willpower to avoid the candy bowl on your desk, you're actively engaging in an activity that occupies some amount of your time and attention. Simply not having it there is strictly better.
Yep, I totally agree as someone with weak willpower for certain things. I keep temptations and distractions out of my own reach, because then it's easier to not succumb to them. I know my thoughts and habits are irrational to some extent and so I try to work around them.
- lazide 2y agoThe point is, the easiest way to keep it out of reach is to literally not have it within reach. Everyone has finite willpower. Apparently they’d prefer to use some of theirs on things other than constantly minding their smart phone usage.
- trealira 2y agoI'm agreeing with them. I was just saying that what they say corroborates my experience, that it makes the best use of my willpower to keep those things out of reach.