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I'm starting to think of these in terms of calories each has burned and their effect on our blood sugar. Memorizing a 7-digit number, may be more draining on ou

I'm starting to think of these in terms of calories each has burned and their effect on our blood sugar. Memorizing a 7-digit number, may be more draining on our mental computing resources, requiring them to burn more sugar, which leads to you wanting something that will raise blood sugar faster. I don't know how accurate this is, but to me it's more feasible than having "pools" of willpower and other cognitive resources that we are depleting.

GregBuchholz 13y ago
An interesting place to start the investigation is "Glucose Is Not Willpower Fuel". http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-design/201108/glucose-is-not-willpower-fuel http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mind-design/201108/gluco...
- rswinkle 13y ago
  Yes and no. It is willpower/decision making fuel but there is no change in energy use. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-from-decision-fatigue.html?_r=3&pagewanted=all& http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/magazine/do-you-suffer-fro...