Tips on shoring up your willpower and sticking with those New Year’s resolutions
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Marshmallow-ology: Why Wait, When the Better Treat Might Never Arrive?
Impulse control may be a key predictor of later success, but for some kids delaying gratification makes little sense
Improving Willpower: How to Keep Self-Control from Flagging
Why does willpower often seem to fail us, just when we need it most?
Is Twitter Really More Addictive than Alcohol? The Vagaries of Will and Desire
Twitter and Facebook are harder to resist than alcohol and cigarettes, but so is the urge to work, according to new research on people’s daily struggles with self-control and desire.
The Secrets of Self-Control: The Marshmallow Test 40 Years Later
Ever wonder why your willpower fails you just when you need it most? The results of a new long-term study, which first began more than 40 years ago with the now-famous marshmallow test in preschoolers, may offer some clues.
Mind over Mind? Decision Fatigue Saps Willpower — if We Let It
Are the endless decisions of modern life leading to decision fatigue, depleting our willpower to the point that we end up making increasingly poor, even self-destructive choices?
Hopefulness Is Better Than Happiness for Diet Success
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow — if you want to stick to your diet. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which found that upbeat, forward-looking feelings like hopefulness led to better dietary choices, while positive …
The Key to Health, Wealth and Success: Self-Control
Self-control may be the secret to success, according to a persuasive new study that followed 1,000 children from birth to age 32: children who showed early signs of self-mastery were not only less likely to have developed …
To Keep Willpower from Flagging, Remember the F-Word: ‘Fun’
Exercising self-control isn’t fun.
If you’re dieting, for instance, you may easily resist the blueberry muffin at that impossibly aromatic bakeshop you pass by in the morning. You may then have lunch with your friends but just …
