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Jess_Riedel comments on Willpower: not a limited resource? - Less Wrong
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I've never heard of willpower depletion. I've heard people say that they don't have enough willpower, but not that they're out of willpower. Surely willpower is a long-term stat like CON, not an diminishable resource like HP.
I've never thought that I've had much willpower (possibly a nocebo effect originally generalised from a few early cases?). But on those occasions where I have used my willpower, this has always made subsequent uses easier. I can't imagine using it up.
In fact, previous research has shown that it is a lot like HP in many situations. See the citations near the beginning of the article.
Yeah, I see that now, but it's still very weird to me. And the new article seems to explain why: I think of willpower as like CON, so for me it's like CON. Others think of it as HP, so for them it's like HP. I just didn't realise that there was anybody like those others before!
For me it's more like the limit break meter. When things get bad enough, it comes.
On the other hand, sometimes it's like a combo meter - the more I do, the more I keep doing.
Maybe it's more that I have a constant amount, and the challenge I'm facing varies in time.