In 1907, William James complains that psychologists have ignored the topic of "the energies of men"—that is, the practical stamina available for "running one's mental and moral operations".
Have good frameworks emerged for this in the past century?
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perhaps doesn't hit the nail on the head either (if you're focused on 'energy'), but there are recent lines of work on resource-constrained mental effort and motivation. maybe easiest to trace branches from here? annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114 (non-paywalled: wouterkool.com/papers/Shenhav)
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and a bunch of other recent topics related to costs and constraints governing mental effort (both 2020 and 2021 editions):
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Followup: these *are* great! Very excited to start walking this cite tree…
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I've always called it finding the stream, but I like this metaphor better.