Yvain comments on [LINK] NYTimes essay on willpower, based on an upcoming Baumeister book - Less Wrong

16 Post author: Vladimir_Golovin 18 August 2011 10:05AM

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Comment author: Yvain 20 August 2011 10:02:42AM 0 points [-]

Trading off pain/effort while gripping for...well, whatever it was that made people want to grip the handgrip in the first place. The feeling of having been helpful in the study? Personal pride at believing yourself to have high willpower?