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Science shows that self-discipline taxes the soul
- aethertap 14y agoI'll have to check some of the primary sources on that, but it seems true (and obvious) from an intuitive perspective. This would go a long way toward explaining my relatively recent progression toward a zombie-like mental state...
- ninguem2 14y agoThis point and similar ones are made in the book "Willpower" by Baumeister and Tierney. They provide references to the research.
- draz 14y agosomething about this page crashes my Chrome (Mac, 21.0.1180.82). Anyone else? A link to the text?
- FrojoS 14y agohttps://www.dropbox.com/s/pcxnrl6vyl73i80/SelfControl.txt https://www.dropbox.com/s/pcxnrl6vyl73i80/SelfControl.txt I haven't updated Chrome in the last 3 days - and now I wont :-D (MacBook Air late 2010, Snow Leopard)
- diego 14y agoHere's a much better article on the topic by Dan Ariely. This is one of his primary areas of research, and he addresses it in his books (including a description of his experiments). http://danariely.com/2012/08/15/understanding-ego-depletion/ http://danariely.com/2012/08/15/understanding-ego-depletion/ I made a separate submission for the above link, it deserves it.
- draggnar 14y ago"ego depletion"... sounds like something from zen buddhism
- momotomo 14y agoSome koans have the goal of exhausting this kind of reserve through trying to deeply explore and attempt to solve a paradox. I think the intent is to gain experience of this kind of depletion to better understand its impacts (at least from my experience of it).
- aniijbod 14y agoThanks Diego, I checked out the posting you linked and you're right, he definitely raises other highly relevant issues, probably much more eloquently than I did in my own article. The mental resource that is being impacted by such things as exercising self-control seems to go far beyond anything we typically define as 'ego' as in self-image and I think the implications are therefore even more wide-ranging than ego-depletion, although he does seem to imply that he appreciates this.
- eli_gottlieb 14y agoNo, really? I had no idea.
- FixThisPOS 14y agoWhat are we supposed to do with this information? The article doesn't suggest any approach to mitigate the problem.