Self-Control

Principle: Your beliefs about whether willpower can wear out predict whether it actually wears out in practice. Quote: “It is important that people understand that their own beliefs about willpower…

Principle Self-Control is associated with a lot of varied, positive life outcomes. Quote “Self-control as measured by our scale is linked to beneficial, positive outcomes across remarkably diverse domains.”Tangney, J.…

Principle Practicing self-control doesn’t increase your self-control. Quote “Despite high levels of adher- ence to the training tasks, there was no effect of training on any measure of self-control. Trained…