i'm sure people make ego depletion / executive function budget / etc etc into an endless series of excuses and other straw men but nonetheless years before i heard of any of these concepts i was having a conversation with a couple of coworkers who were moving
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about how their ability to make decisions was acting like a muscle that got exhausted, and once they'd decided a hundred things in one day as part of moving they then couldn't decide whether or not to hit McDonalds
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this doesn't demonstrate anything about any particular underlying phenomenon but if you're just gonna be like, "no nothing like that is real because i am a big strong man who can make myself do whatever i want", sorry, my anecdote > your ego defense
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i remember reading a study once that observed that people were less capable of resisting having a slice a cake after they finished a series of complex calculus, suggested there was indeed a limited, shared pool of resources for these things
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iirc that's what the ego depletion studies were trying to show – but they haven't done too well in the replication crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_controversy_and_conflicting_meta_analyses … it's something that feels like it should be intuitively true, though, so maybe we just haven't figured out how to measure it well
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