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juliawise comments on [study] Ego depletion might disappear with age - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: Gabriel 15 September 2012 01:32PM

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Comment author: juliawise 15 September 2012 05:50:52PM 0 points [-]

I sometimes think "I shouldn't deplete myself by doing unpleasant things that don't matter a lot - I should save my willpower for the really important things." Apparently this may get less true as I age, so I should push myself sometimes to find out how much ego depletion is really happening.