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Limited resources for self-control.

Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:34 pm
by Too solid flesh
Scott Adams's blog has an entertaining piece about self-control today:

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilb ... al-wi.html

and the information to which he links is here:

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/ ... ontrol.htm

Basically, exercising self-control takes effort, and we have limited resources. Hooray for no-s, which helps set automatic habits so that self-control resources are less stretched!

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 1:28 am
by kccc
Thought-provoking... and rings true.

Yup, habit-building is definitely the way to go.

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:53 pm
by reinhard
Very funny... yeah, the fact that you have "limited reserves of willpower" is at the core of No-s. Use whatever remains to fend off amorous cartoonists, ladies :-).

Reinhard

Re: Limited resources for self-control.

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:24 pm
by BrightAngel
Too solid flesh wrote:http://www.world-science.net/othernews/ ... ontrol.htm
Basically, exercising self-control takes effort, and we have limited resources. Hooray for no-s, which helps set automatic habits so that self-control resources are less stretched!
I found this link to have interesting information.

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:31 pm
by FarmerHal
:lol: That was quite entertaining!

Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:30 pm
by blueskighs
Fascinating!
Thanks for sharing.

This might happily explain why my ability to focus on tasks at hand and my productivity has gone through the roof on No S ... all that RELEASED self-control ... previously used for food/eating issues is freed up for life and the living of it!

Blueskighs