willpower

“They say when you're done with your decision-making energy, there's only two ways to replenish it. Number one is sleep, and number two is glucose, or anything that turns into glucose in your body.”

“So in that study, there was a control group that learned about willpower and how important it is to, like, you know, use willpower to accomplish your goals, and then there was a neutral control group, and what we found is that the condition that increased acad…”

“Willpower. Grossly overrated. Yeah. Willpower. Good luck on that one. We all need help.”

“It takes willpower to make good decisions. It doesn't take a lot of willpower to follow a schedule.”

“Our willpower is not, you know, an inexhaustible resource. We wake up in the morning, whenever our morning is, with more willpower than we'll have at the end of the day because we've tired it out. So we can't exclusively rely on our willpower. We have to reall…”