willpower

“And what I found was that they are not the type of person who just has hardcore willpower. It's that they design an environment Where their willpower isn't tested.”

“Well, it turns out it's not true. That when we try and replicate those studies, and this happens in the social science, this is how science works. Science doesn't say anything. Science is the process of doing repeated experiments and seeing if they replicate, …”

“So again, you don't have a willpower problem. You're not lazy. You have an equation problem. Willpower is really hard to scale. Equations, though, they can be solved.”