Your Willpower Doesnt Matter

[noobs]

Marshmellow Study

There was an study where kids were sat infront of a marshmellow and told they get another marshmellow if they didnt eat the marshmellow when they came back into the room. The kids who didnt eat the marshmellow became more successful in life in almost every aspect of life.

A alcoholic who has a fully stocked mini fridge full of alcohol uses a lot of effort to resist getting drunk.

BUT is there a benefit to succeeding in resisting the temptation?

Willpower Is Finite

Another study had 67 people who havent eaten in atleast 3 hours, walk into a room with a bowl of chocolate chip cookies, and the other bowl filled with radishes. half were told that they had to eat the radishes, and the other could eat the cookies.
After that they were told to solve a impossible puzzle. The people who ate the radishes gave up in 8 minutes and the people who ate the cookies gave up in 19 minutes while the control group gave up in 21 minutes.

This means willpower is a limited resource.

In this next study asked people if they were the type to be good at resisting temptations, they people who said they could resist temptations well, had less temptations than the people that couldnt resist temptation well.

How did they do it?
In the marshmellow study, the kids that could resist the intial marshmellow, covered their eyes, talked to themselves, they sang, invented games with their feet, and didnt rely on willpower.

Dont rely on willpower; take the temptation out your life.

sources
https://static1.squarespace.com/sta...6166260/whats-so-great-about-self-control.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26076043/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9599441/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22149456/
^ this is another study on this topic i didnt talk about

 

[Maalik]

this is kind of how Islam and many ancient religions work.

fornication is a problem? Cover the women.
Drunkenness is a problem? ban alcoholic drinks
etc etc.

Willpower is still important though. We can't live a purposeful life with zero willpower.

 

[noobs]

also yall gotta realize this means to not change the output but to change the thought process for something your trying to obtain.

1+1=2 but 4/2 = 2 and its still not the same
a lot of people on this website a copy a look when they need the maintainence for everything they are doing to look like a model when it will drain their willpower and ultimately make them worse because that willpower will come from somewhere. So use willpower to the best places in the most efficenecy.