"willpower" is a distraction. many (most?) people have an internal tyrant trying to force the rest of them into submission, and the experience of using up "willpower" is internal slave rebellion. it is possible but hard to permanently overthrow the internal tyranthttps://twitter.com/speakerjohnash/status/1147562712563458048 …
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the promise of the internal tyrant is that if you submit to it hard enough, external tyrants will be pleased and will take care of you. we are seeing that promise break down all around us, calling us to a more vibrantly alive form of being, at peace and not at war with itself
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Are you sure it's learned, though? Isn't it a function of a fully developed prefrontal cortex? Seems to be a human universal, comes up in Buddhist teachings as well. I think it's the price our species has to pay for our cognitive skills.
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