So dieters have less willpower right when they need more willpower.
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It is a bit of an act of willpower... I mean not insane willpower.
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It's not about willpower Breaking bad habits is all about changing your environment, not by using sheer willpower.
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But there is also research that suggests that your amount of willpower depends on your thinking about willpower.
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Reward yourself with a mood boost after you utilize willpower Muraven also explored the effects of mood on willpower.
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On a different level, the science of willpower and self-control confirm that your willpower — or energy levels — are strongest immediately following sleep.
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Again and again, Baumeister and colleagues found that exerting willpower in one domain seemed to exhaust it, leaving no willpower available for tasks in other domains.
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But if I had the willpower to methodically shock myself, I would probably also have the actual willpower to stop biting my nails in the first place.
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"The jogger" had been exercising a kind of willpower people admired, but her willpower had been viciously punished, and people were hungry for more punishment in return.
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Psychology professor Kelly McGonigal's The Willpower Instinct is based on her popular Stanford University course called "The Science of Willpower," and draws on insights from psychology, behavioral economics, and neuroscience.
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" I said, "Wait a minute, there's something called willpower.
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"The people who I have met, who I have arrested, when I see the willpower that they have to want to reunite with family members, or when I see the willpower to find a job or to escape something horrible in their home country — that kind of willpower isn't going to be…" Lenihan paused.
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I believed so much in my own determination and willpower.
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Demanding driving, fatigue, and stress have waned your brain's willpower.
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Hunger erodes willpower, and that's the reason most diets fail.
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Does the presence of your spouse give you more willpower?
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The root of the problem is not willpower but neuroscience.
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You only have so much willpower on any given day.
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First, I'm sorry to report, losing weight still takes willpower.
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This policy just tightens their willpower to hang in there.
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It makes me very skeptical about willpower as the answer.
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Worse, exerting willpower can take a psychological and physical toll.
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When our willpower stores get used up, we get tired.
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Many of us think we are severely lacking in willpower.
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But a pre-crastinator may need equal willpower to not work.
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Contrary to popular belief, this is physiological, not related to willpower.
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I summon my shreds of willpower and stumble to the kitchen.
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I also buy chocolate for myself because I have no willpower.
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But the resolution I'm going to propose doesn't take yearlong willpower.
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Willpower is like a muscle that depletes when it is exercised.
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True defeat is the loss of willpower and desire to fight.
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Your willpower is like a muscle that becomes fatigued over time.
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That suggests a huge desire to remain private—and extraordinary willpower.
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For one, willpower takes brain power, and brain power uses glucose.
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Ashdown described himself as having few gifts other than strong willpower.
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Takes a lot of willpower to loose 22016kgs in 18mnths pic.twitter.
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It took willpower to acknowledge he was, in fact, an actor.
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No; defeat is the loss of willpower and desire to fight.
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Oprah Winfrey set a standard, not for speed but for willpower.
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"That means there's no point in talking about willpower," he said.
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It took all of my willpower not to photograph the scene.
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The Only Way to Keep Your Resolutions Willpower is for chumps.
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If you rely on willpower alone, you won't get very far.
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Wherever fear dominates, true happiness vanishes and individual willpower runs dry.
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I make no promises about my willpower on the return trip.
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Paralympic Games mascot "Bandabi" represents courage and strong willpower, organizers said.
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Patience also says a lot about a person's willpower and discipline.
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I remember using all of my willpower not to look down.
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Attributing obesity to the environment, rather than willpower, also predicted acceptability.
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"It's the willpower of each of the individual characters, the willpower exercised between old Paul and his grandson, first as one tries to get money from the other, then extending into different arenas, some tragic," he said.
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One study found that gratitude can improve decision-making and increase willpower.
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But psychologists are increasingly finding that willpower alone is an ineffective strategy.
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For that, you might just need to rely on old-fashioned willpower.
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I've never been able on willpower alone to shut off that switch.
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His frustrated presidency so far suggests that willpower alone is not enough.
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Some people just experience fewer temptations, or have more willpower, than others.
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Willpower can help suppress the doer's urges, but exercising restraint is costly.
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It takes every ounce of willpower I have, but I do refrain.
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To me, it increases my willpower and boosts my creativity and inspiration.
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It is not born out of moral failure or lack of willpower.
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For many, a lack of willpower is an excuse for giving up.
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But back then, through heterosexual willpower, I (unsuccessfully) pined after beautiful women.
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Doing so conveys a lack of respect, attention, listening skills, and willpower.
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That was me: weak in willpower, weak in body, weak in mind.
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"Even when they were working, it was all about willpower," she said.
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It took all of my critic willpower not to zone out frequently.
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Many of us see it as lack of work ethic and willpower.
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But there are also hope, humor, willpower, resilience, forgiveness and unconditional love.
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"The willpower of Serena, nobody can beat that," Hingis once told me.
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Except this season, avoiding spoilers wasn't about my willpower (or lack thereof).
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Somehow I find the willpower to walk out with just the ornament.
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Don't rely on willpower when it comes to your New Year's resolutions.
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NATO's ultimate guarantor of security is U.S. military power — and political willpower.
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"This season is a testament to my endurance and willpower," said Gatlin.
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The only thing that can save us from technology addiction is willpower.
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Not because of their willpower, but because the routine makes it easier.
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Yes, we're saying you may just be able to create more willpower.
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Whether it has the willpower to follow through remains an open question.
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Willpower is conscious exertion, when we have to force ourselves to do something.
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The more anxious people are, the less willpower they have to resist SIB.
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"They used up a lot of willpower to make it through," Yan said.
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Other countries would have their willpower fortified and steadily ratchet up their commitments.
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People see Nicky and are impressed with her great self-control, or willpower.
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Books that helped grow discipline (like The Willpower Instinct and Can't Hurt Me).
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My willpower no longer moved mountains; it barely got me out of bed.
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"True defeat is the loss of willpower and desire to fight," he said.
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Willpower dominated lunchtime, prompting me to make a sandwich instead of order food.
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If it's lacking the willpower at the political level, that's a different thing.
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I do shows, and it is just sheer willpower to get through it.
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But the low success rate doesn't really reflect a collective lack of willpower.
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"If you have the willpower to hold up to your dog," she said.
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He has his team in sixth place in the West through sheer willpower.
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But they also mustn't embarrass us with a dearth of willpower or discernment.
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In short, Terceira is the ultimate test of willpower for any faltering vegan.
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"It takes a lot of willpower to try to learn French," Ahmed said.
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Some experts liken willpower to a muscle, which when used repeatedly gets fatigued.
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It can help increase your willpower and change bad habits, as I recently discovered.
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You can't overcome it with willpower alone, like Russell Crowe in A Beautiful Mind.
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Decisions can become overwhelming; as we use up neural fuel, we deplete our willpower.
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So I just fueled myself with willpower, willing myself to not need him anymore.
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The more decisions you make, the lower quality they become — the weaker your willpower.
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It takes a lot of willpower to convince yourself you're going to be disinhibited.
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Those around Falzone say the company's success couldn't have happened without their CEO's willpower.
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And this practical book inspired me to bring my willpower to the next level.
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Yet three-quarters of survey participants said obesity resulted from a lack of willpower.
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It took everything I had to muster the willpower to slink out of bed.
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The stories about her immense willpower and strength are legendary in the track world.
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"Don't rely on willpower, create a healthy environment as best you can," Epel said.
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New year&aposs resolutions are a great way of testing ourselves and improving willpower.
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Notice that no amount of willpower is going to help resolve this internal contraction.
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That they have a lot of willpower and they know how to use it.
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It took a lot of willpower and discipline to save as much as I did.
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But if you don't have the willpower for that, the answer is the beer-garita.
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Thursday is Thanksgiving, and we'll all need an extra dose of willpower for this one.
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Mary Jane tries to fight him off, but she's never been known for her willpower.
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It cut deeper: Inside, I felt empty and raw, angry at my lack of willpower.
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The tide is turning against the notion of willpower as depletable in other ways, too.
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This place is known for its boozy milkshakes, but I exercise great willpower and refrain.
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After her split from Ulay, Abramović's art turns toward giant acts of willpower and resistance.
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I have no willpower and I stop to get a large fries and Dr. Pepper.
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She has an all-terrain walker and willpower that's stronger than Gold Butte's bedrock geology.
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Many will argue that addiction is not a disease, but rather a lack of willpower.
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"I believe that passion and willpower can triumph over these kind of obstacles," he added.
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The replay, however, confirmed that Pearce, through sheer willpower, never lost contact with the base.
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Two new studies confirm that weight control is often the result of genetics, not willpower.
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I.N. explains his lack of willpower using cool slang ("작심삼일") that stumps even the interpreter.
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It took all of my willpower to not make a scene for my granddaughter's sake.
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"It'll have to fight my willpower with all it's got to knock me down again."/•/
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"The willpower and the willingness to overcome all the obstacles that she had," Djokovic began.
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It always trumps discipline and willpower because we become a reflection of those around us.
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But since those foods were rare, our ancestors didn't need much in terms of willpower.
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Many people struggle to find the willpower and energy to focus on what's really important.
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It's possible, Nikolai notes, that he inherited his self-deception and his willpower from her.
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The research on self-control shows that willpower, for all its benefits, wanes over time.
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That way, their mental muscles and willpower are reserved for making wise choices that matter.
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Lack of willpower or self-control is the top cited reason for not following through.
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How can you increase your willpower and fulfill your New Year&aposs promise to yourself?
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Conventional wisdom has long suggested that procrastination is all about poor time management and willpower.
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Congress doesn't have the willpower or desire, it seems, to take back its war powers.
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Your success depends on how you use two types of energy: willpower energy and emotional energy.
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You still might want the things you had before, so you really have to get willpower.
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So Strength and Agility decks are dubbed the Archer class, while Mages combine Intelligence and Willpower.
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"If your willpower center is tapped out, you're less likely to make good decisions," Atchley says.
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They can't make you exercise — and that's the real conundrum: Apps aren't a substitute for willpower.
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Relying on your willpower is a losing game, so get it out of sight and reach.
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It didn't take willpower, and I honestly think that's the most powerful way someone can save.
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The result: the app removes the need for willpower and creates more time to be productive.
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They then lose willpower and feel forced into making snap decisions that lead to higher cost.
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The key questions, then, are not simply questions of power — they are also questions of willpower.
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The girls are going for a coffee run, and I have the willpower to say no.
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Feel weak and ineffective because you can't seem to find the willpower to overcome bad habits?
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Those advantages include higher IQ (intelligence quotient), willpower, confidence and up to 20 percent more energy.
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Someone once told me that if freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
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"This is the only dietI've ever tried that feels effortless—just no willpower required," she said.
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And the political willpower didn't exist in Alabama or the country to get rid of them.
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So I think, if anything, it strengthens the willpower to say yes, I can do this.
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Laura, 24, Florida I want people to know that recovery is not a matter of willpower.
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Bryant's leadership style was not just to win but to dominate all competition through sheer willpower.
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"It's a test of our willpower, a way to emphasize our spiritual dimension," Mr. Jaffer said.
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Ferocious and bold, Thatcher is a case study as much in willpower as sharpness of tooth.
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They also don&apost run out of willpower, because they perceive it as a limitless resource.
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The case against willpower as a means of achieving goals is growing in the published literature.
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As anyone who has struggled with a diet knows, willpower won't work in the long run.
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"Trying 20 times and not succeeding — is that lack of willpower, or a problem that can't be treated with willpower?" asked Dr. Louis Aronne, the director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Center at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, who was not involved with the study.
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So while the jury may still be out on whether willpower depletion is in fact a hard truth, there are a few things you can do throughout your day that may just strengthen your willpower, and your ability to act from a place of self restraint.
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But enough willpower and perseverance — "blood, sweat and tears" — will get you to the other side. Eventually.
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But this doesn't mean relying on willpower alone -- all you need to do is change your environment.
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Fortunately, the fate of the Gulf oyster doesn't depend solely on your willpower to stop eating them.
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We all know the pull from an Amazon deal often has the ability to override your willpower.
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"Self-discipline predicted academic performance more robustly than did IQ." Willpower helps people succeed beyond the classroom.
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It's a way to remove your own willpower and whims from the work of being an author.
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And, it turns out, it's not a lack of willpower that makes it so tempting to blab.
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But Adam's willpower was stronger than mine and he'd say 'Come on Mum, no staying in bed.
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If you think there is no limit to the amount of willpower you have, then there isn't.
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It won't prove that I'm a fuckup, have no willpower, or don't take care of my body.
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Brainstorms are imaginative, and you, Taurus, currently have the willpower to see the biggest ideas into existence.
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"That boredom can quickly sap willpower and motivation [and] diminish self-care and resilience," write the authors.
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Created by the sheer willpower of players on the Excalibur server, Chocomaximus was a beautiful, monsterous experiment.
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It takes every ounce of willpower that I have to set my alarm clock for 8 a.m.
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It takes a lot of courage and willpower (and a bit of luck) to achieve great reform.
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Even if you have superhuman willpower than enables you to avoid bingeing later, you still can't win.
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"This is the only diet I've ever tried that feels effortless—just no willpower required," she said.
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Unfortunately, both willpower and reasoning rely on the prefrontal cortex, which isn't available at these critical moments.
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We told you that smoking is not an addiction and all it takes to quit is willpower.
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Many researchers believe building healthy habits is the best way to succeed, rather than leaning on willpower.
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Most important, a leader who, through acumen, willpower and charisma, united a movement given to immobilizing infighting.
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In choosing to rely on rational analysis and willpower to stick to our goals, we're disadvantaging ourselves.
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At moderate levels, the tendency to pursue achievement through willpower and rational analysis can be a boon.
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Instead, boost your willpower through a series of small and strategic steps that will help you succeed.
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It took all my willpower not to fill every available inch of my suitcase with new books.
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These tests are often used to test what scientists call inhibitory control, commonly referred to as willpower.
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Here, however, the gamification pushes you to stretch yourself — winning can be a better motivator than willpower alone.
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I always thought politics was impenetrable, but with the right help and the willpower you can do it.
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They also often had habits that boosted their willpower reserves, like: They also forged habits that reduced stress.
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Both Norcross and Stephenson stress that willpower is not enough, not matter how much you may hear otherwise.
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Even a little bit of sleep deprivation negatively affects your glucose levels, a key component of your willpower.
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At IKEA's Corporate Culture Centre, ubiquitous pictures of Mr Kamprad accompany his mottos about humility, willpower and renewal.
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The crumbling of the science of willpower doesn't mean that psychologists have been dishonest or unscrupulous, Hagger said.
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Her association assures anxious parents that sports will develop their children's willpower, as well as their physical fitness.
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As a veteran expeditioner, Bayliss knew such an undertaking would require far more than Jeeps, tents, and willpower.
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The good news is that a more secure future is within our grasp -- if we have the willpower.
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But Kotb held strong, and J-Rod told her they would donate $10,000 in honor of her willpower.
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Researchers often refer to this phenomenon as decision fatigue, since every single decision we make depletes our willpower.
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The problem is we assume it's a willpower thing, which is exactly what you don't want to do.
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Building habits around positive behaviors takes willpower and self-control out of the equation; you just do them.
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Mr. Turnbull recently accused the Labor Party of lacking "the willpower" to turn back boats of asylum seekers.
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With the new tools now available, and with but a little more willpower, AIDS can surely be beaten.
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You're not only brightening your financial future but you are also reserving your limited willpower for other habits.
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Many contestants struggled to keep the weight off as their bodies effectively went to war with their willpower.
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But it wasn't just willpower that helped you develop a taste for foods that once made you grimace.
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"But to put it bluntly, anybody with the willpower to help others and compassion can do this job."
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"The people who exhibit the most self-control are not actually those who have superhuman willpower," he explained.
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He had insisted he was strong enough to forge past tough times with willpower and a daily antidepressant.
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I loved it and am extremely proud of my willpower not to buy something from the gift shop.
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However, it still caught the attention of plenty of viewers who wanted a little help with their willpower.
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Start with the Rule of 5s We're first going to end the cage match between cravings and willpower.
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When we tell people to get off the platform, we recast a political issue as a willpower issue.
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The takeaway from this story was clear: when temptation overcomes willpower, it's a moral failing, worthy of punishment.
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The previous leading theory on willpower, called ego depletion, has recently come under intense scrutiny for not replicating.
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"Since it takes willpower to delay gratification, individually and collectively we sometimes underinvest in the future," he wrote.
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If using willpower to keep your nose to the grindstone feels like a struggle, that's because it is.
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"Somebody has to take responsibility at the political level and provide the leadership and the willpower," LePatner told CNBC.
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And it's not just a matter of willpower: There is little to no science backing the latest diet fads.
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And once you've gotten into that willpower groove, your brain is practiced at helping you focus on a goal.
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The researchers used a statistical method to adjust for small studies that showed very large effects for willpower depletion.
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A meta-analysis published in July in the journal Psychological Science examined the question of whether glucose limits willpower.
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Willpower will get you started on and through this process of self-improvement, but it can't replace it. 5.
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If can match our hopes w/ willpower, we can make tremendous strides in addressing rising cancer rates in LatAm!
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A conveyor belt rolls endlessly, spinning an empty energy drink can, suggesting spent energy or a lack of willpower.
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As you may now understand, it was neither strength nor willpower that the two divine hunters needed to pool.
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Mark Zuckerberg and Barack Obama famously wear the same few pieces of clothing every day to conserve their willpower.
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The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigalSelf-control is the number one skill that helped me through my college years.
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"The enemy is investing in order to create a generation without any willpower," the prosecutor said of social media.
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Liberate yourself from laziness the moment you wake up by having the willpower to start ahead of the pack.
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When an aggressive form of brain cancer hit him last year, he again displayed his famous tenacity and willpower.
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It's a scientifically proven way to boost your mental willpower — whether you're jumping over a hurdle or filing paperwork.
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Men don't always like how you look, but they recognize you've obviously got the willpower to achieve such gains.
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The problem is that the law is so dated, and there is so little willpower to actually enforce it.
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You have to have the willpower to wear stilettos in pouring rain and a thin sweater in freezing temperatures.
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If productivity is your goal, you have to rely on willpower to push yourself to get a task done.
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It would be a reflection of my brainpower and willpower, revealing that I had the right stuff to succeed.
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It's very easy to "SLIVER" your way around an entire cake if you don't have a lot of willpower.
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What sort of willpower does it take to resist a sweet when one's house contains nothing but green powders?
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From an evolutionary perspective, the fact that exercising willpower doesn't come naturally to us makes a lot of sense.
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Researchers have discovered that relying on willpower isn't actually a great tool for weight loss or changing your behavior.
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Some people call this willpower or self-control: the forceful use of mental energy to get at a goal.
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In a specific situation, sure, you can muster willpower to save yourself from falling back into a bad habit.
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After all, most of them are about drastic, life-altering changes...and nobody has the time (or willpower) for that.
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You don't have to possess the ability to read sheet music — you just need willpower and a willingness to learn.
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Mars moves into your sign on Thursday, giving your willpower a boost as you dive headfirst into self-directed projects.
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His leadership and willpower will be immediately tested by countries and non-state actors in many regions of the world.
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We deplete our willpower every time we say no to the little things in life that make us feel rich.
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I'm sure some people have the willpower to say enough is enough and move on, but I'm not that person.
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"It's a lot about willpower and understanding that you're out of college now and you have more responsibilities," he said.
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We have the strategies and the national willpower to start to rewrite those norms—to chip away at this epidemic.
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The debate on gun control is not about constitutional or statutory authority, but rather of political willpower or lack thereof.
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Parents who muster the willpower to leave their house with an infant know that whatever happens next is wholly unpredictable.
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It's as if I have no control over how much stuff I need, and no willpower to keep it simple.
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Sometimes this is a reflection of someone's lack of willpower, physical or mental energy, fear of stigmatization and/or hopelessness.
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Many of us invoke "willpower" in our fight against fat, blaming and shaming ourselves and others for not losing weight.
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" If an accidental nuclear war does happen, will you have the willpower not to tell everyone "I told you so?
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Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist and author of "The Willpower Instinct," suggested asking yourself this question before making any resolutions.
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And it's possible that #DeleteFacebook might actually play into Facebook's hands, by recasting a political issue as a willpower issue.
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First, we will need to try to use our phones more mindfully, which requires a combination of willpower and technology.
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And that requires a tremendous amount of toughness and willpower and strength and hope and faith, and they had that.
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NIBBLES: A rule banning electronics from the Senate impeachment trial could test the willpower of tech-obsessed members of Congress.
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I&aposm not dwelling on willpower or rigidly prescribing something that is going to set you up for feeling bad.
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In Cooper's book, there is only one force — a woman whose sheer willpower overwhelms the odds and wins the day.
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Still, nothing I tried, no amount of balancing the elements of DEFOE, no amount of willpower or determination was enough.
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It took all of Georgia Gilmore's willpower not to explode at the driver of the crowded bus in Montgomery, Ala.
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It took all of Georgia Gilmore's willpower not to explode at the driver of the crowded bus in Montgomery, Ala.
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It's as if Blanca is searching through music's past for clarity and willpower, yet speaking in a confused modern voice.
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We blame willpower failings for weight gain, even though it's genetics and our calorie-laden environments conspiring against out waistlines.
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While some blame our collective tech addiction on personal failings, like weak willpower, Harris points a finger at the software itself.
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To add another aid to your willpower, tap Use Screen Time Passcode to make it more difficult to change the settings.
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Apparently, he has incredible willpower—he never mentioned the dozens of "attempted log-in" email alerts until our final breakup fight.
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Upon hearing these words, it will take all of your willpower to not mutter "Well, oooobviously" right back at the screen.
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When you set up an automatic transfer, you take willpower out of the equation, and it makes saving effortless and consistent.
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And he had incredible willpower, and he was able to pull back without having to go to rehab like everybody else.
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Still, we now possess both the tools and the willpower to unify a diverse and impactful coalition to combat this problem.
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StayFocusd If you find you lack the willpower to regulate your time on the web yourself, StayFocusd does it for you.
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In this case it's a question of willpower—recognizing that pull towards your phone, ignoring it, and doing something else instead.
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One problem, though, is that it's all very well saying "just drink less," but isn't it sometimes about more than willpower?
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The French food group will need to marshal all the willpower it can to resist the temptation of this rich offer.
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Take courage into our own hands and fight with the weapons that we have at our disposal: knowledge, diplomas and willpower!
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Studies actually indicate that merely visualizing yourself at the proverbial finish line is ineffective, and can actually detract from your willpower.
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Or perhaps we're just busy and operating with limited reserves of willpower to make the effort to do the responsible thing.
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United, however, Iranians ultimately triumph by using their willpower to create a giant wave that sinks the entire American Fifth Fleet.
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Quibi knows that where willpower has failed, self-deprecation steps in to give our bad habits a patina of sardonic resignation.
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Build a better habit Many people blame a lack of willpower or poor self-control for their failure to exercise regularly.
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Skills can only take you so far without the grit, determination and mental willpower to tackle anything life throws at you.
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Still, it takes a serious amount of willpower to persuade yourself that the benefits of exercise outweigh all those miserable negatives.
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That's a laudable goal, but I don't have the willpower to abandon things like goat cheese, baked tofu and nachos forever.
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Many experts are now claiming this isn't how it works at all, and that willpower is not something we can deplete.
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So push yourself through that final mile — you may just be building up your capacity for willpower while you're at it.
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But this idea, that people have self-control because they're good at willpower, is looking more and more like a myth.
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After 15 days of pulling a nearly 400-pound sled across a treacherously windy Antarctica, Colin O'Brady was hungry, his willpower depleted.
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The font of our consciousness, known as the cortex, is the newest part of our brain, and it controls our willpower energy.
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Incredibly influential textbook findings in psychology — like the "ego depletion" theory of willpower or the "marshmallow test" — have been bending or breaking.
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The stoics talk about the will, the discipline of the will, but it's not the same as the modern take on willpower.
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There's a great book called "The Willpower Instinct" that's really wonderful and lays out a lot of the qualities relative to grit.
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In other words: People experience weight-loss "plateaus" because their bodies are designed to work that way, not for lack of willpower.
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Just like with an actual activity tracker, it's ultimately up to you to find the willpower to follow through on a workout.
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Changing the environment in which you perform an activity can dramatically reduce the amount of willpower required to engage in it. 3.
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Whether it was a feat of pure willpower or someone spotted the snafu and helped her out of it, we'll never know.
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Gregory had a lot of very bad opinions and thoughts that were backed by an amazing quick wit and a Herculean willpower.
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"If two nuclear powerhouses engage in a competition to test each other's willpower, the whole world will face the repercussions," it said.
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Well, this dog has more willpower than the rest of us — and is great at balancing treats on its nose to boot.
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"The difficulty in keeping weight off reflects biology, not a pathological lack of willpower affecting two-thirds of the U.S.A.," he said.
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Four thousand years ago, Babylonians, who were the first people to make New Year resolutions, had only willpower to push them forward.
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Prepositioning weapons in Eastern Europe may offer some deterrent, but weaponry is less decisive than willpower and more creative methods of intervention.
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They're similarly skeptical about rewards and penalties that treat smoking as a matter of willpower and personal choice, rather than an addiction.
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Two possible answers are "discrimination" and "willpower," which are the two variables I explore here (respondents could select both if they chose).
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A year of protest, as seen through street art Why willpower is overrated What Australia's devastating fires look like on the ground
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Some voters questioned the intentions of KDP leaders and wonder whether they have the resources and willpower to run an independent state.
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She continues to work with Dr. Apovian, ever hopeful that this time a diet and, she said, willpower, will do the trick.
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Addiction has been attributed solely or primarily to weak willpower, or neural circuitry gone awry, or the inherent dangers of drugs themselves.
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Holler said the obstruction of any Clinton Supreme Court appointee is going to require "an immense amount of willpower" from Senate Republicans.
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At your best, you wage a fight for the underdog—believing in their strength (while knowing your own)—and possess incredible willpower.
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Instead of blaming yourself for a lack of willpower or motivation, walk yourself through the steps:Did you have something to prompt you?
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He has also inspired millions by a unique example of achievement against all the odds – a manifestation of amazing willpower and determination.
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But how we think about consumption and willpower carry enormous implications for the environment and the culture of society as a whole.
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But it's clear to Charlotte, as to everyone, that Branwell would never have the stamina or the willpower to write a novel.
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People who are bad at resisting temptation, meanwhile, supposedly have insufficient or underexploited willpower, a view with deep cultural and moral roots.
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When there is money to be made on the long side, it takes a herculean level of willpower to stay on the sidelines.
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Trump's proposed NASA budget kept Mars funding intact, and political willpower goes a long way in shrinking the notoriously long timescales for spaceflight.
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We set ourselves up for success or failure not because of internal factors like willpower, motivation, and drive, but because of external factors.
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"It all needs appropriate willpower and goodwill," he said when asked about the prospect of the former owners helping tackle PrivatBank's bad loans.
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I recently read that relying on willpower alone is often ineffective when trying to break habits, so I try to outsmart my brain.
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To make sure we have the political willpower needed to make immigration reform work, we need to change the sentiment toward foreign entrepreneurs.
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Duhigg gives the example of Starbucks, which has devoted a lot of time and effort towards training its employees to exercise more willpower.
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Then I force myself with every ounce of willpower and absolutely zero motivation to get up and walk the four blocks to SoulCycle.
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These dopamine-driven feedback loops create a cycle of smartphone addiction, with users having no tools to fight back beyond their own willpower.
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Rather than improving your stats in agility or willpower, the specialization of Absolver is in developing your own distinct chains of fighting moves.
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They can counsel their weight-loss patients that regaining weight may not be an issue of willpower, but rather one of simple physiology.
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"You don&apost need to go that extreme obviously, but my point is if I did anyone can — if there is enough willpower."
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"It's not a matter of not enough resources, or not enough money, or not enough willpower to fight the fire," Mr. Whittemore said.
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As Eric Barker explains in his book, "Barking Up the Wrong Tree, " SEALs develop their mental fitness to enhance their willpower and resilience.
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To boost his own willpower, Robbins does a series of daily physical exercises and follows certain habits that increase his focus and gratitude.
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Governments like the U.K. that just forcibly seized documents related to Facebook's machinations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica debacle provide some indication of willpower.
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But through sheer willpower, manipulation, and a little razzle dazzle, they found themselves acquitted of their crimes and back on vaudeville's main stage.
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While his status as the world's greatest detective is a strong Ravenclaw quality, Bruce Wayne is best known for his cunning and willpower.
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"I don't drink coffee, so I basically get by on willpower, food and naps," said Mr. Dobesh, 26, who lives in Sunnyside, Queens.
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"We see Thistle as part of a movement to make health convenient rather than a high willpower chore," CEO Ashwin Cheriyan tells me.
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Together, they lean on each other to find the money and the willpower to get Autumn what she needs and set her free.
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Good habitsPositive mental outlookTrustworthinessEncouraging attitudeFanatic loyaltyFinancial stabilityHard work ethicIndividual accountabilityStrong willpower and disciplinePassion and enthusiasmGratitudeThose are the traits you want to look for.
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That's why the region of our brain that regulates willpower is evolutionarily younger and easily overridden by the more primitive cravings-driven region.
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Yet, despite their efforts, most of them feel discouraged by their lack of willpower within the first few days of the new year.
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Change your environment to make it easierResearch suggests that people with high willpower are exceptionally good at arranging their environment to avoid temptations.
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Similarly, the idea that willpower is finite — known in the academic literature as ego depletion — has also failed in more rigorous recent testing.
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When discussing willpower, it's important not to mention the widely accepted concept that when it comes to self control we have limited reserves.
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But relying on willpower alone to accomplish goals "is almost like relying on emergency brake when you are driving your car," Saunders says.
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Maybe our death grip on our phones, which now occupy five hours of every day, isn't a personal failing—lack of willpower, rudeness, narcissism.
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I purchased a whole box from Costco last month, and I use all my willpower to resist eating them for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
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Of early birds and worms Torres acknowledged that factors beyond training and willpower might be leading some athletes to stay in the game longer.
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Financial experts say constant vigilance around money can use up your willpower and, in some cases, push you to go on a spending spree.
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I mean, yeah, you can approve more time for yourself, but, the point is to actually try to exercise some good old-fashioned willpower.
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If an entire season is suddenly available to watch in one night, there's nothing but sheer willpower making you wait for the next episode.
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If your significant other doesn't want to participate, ask them to respect your wants and needs and to not try to break your willpower.
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More common are cash-only clinics, or abstinence-based programs that bank on willpower instead of the addiction medications that have proved more effective.
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The caveat to these efforts is that these quantified-self apps lack a major ingredient in changing daily habits after they are measured: willpower.
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That said, a little willpower saves the day on Tuesday, when measured Saturn steps in and reminds Venus of the power of delayed gratification.
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It's taking all of my willpower not to do any online shopping but money is tight this month after we went home for Christmas.
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Irom and her family credit her survival while on this regimen to yoga, which she picked up two years before her strike, and willpower.
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The next time you do something you didn't want to do and think "Why did I do that?" remember that it's not just willpower.
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My willpower to not spend, though, is lowered by my having used it during lunch, so I put some cute briefs in my cart.
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A 2011 study conducted by the University of California found that self-compassion can increase motivation, willpower and the ability to recover from failure.
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That would be a huge escalation in the encryption fight and, moreover, would probably be unsuccessful due to a lack of willpower in Congress.
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Instead, the shop keeps it simple and better organized in case you lack the willpower to try not to elbow someone's abuela while thrifting.
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When dieters who have long ignored their hunger finally exhaust their willpower, they tend to overeat for all these reasons, leading to weight gain.
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Her willpower is strong, but he's got a lot more force and equipment than she does, so it's probably not going to end well.
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I can say that if I had the willpower to stay away from alcohol, I would have done so years before my sobriety date.
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" But a cultural attack "will weaken their willpower, it will take away the youth from the country and it will render valuable forces useless.
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Instead, the shop keeps it simple and better organized in case you lack the willpower of trying not to elbow someone's abuela while thrifting.
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If I didn't have enough willpower to deny myself an Oreo, what made me think I had the moral fiber to be a mom?
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The game's official forums were buzzing with people bragging about their last-minute collapses of willpower and the glory of their theoretical space garages.
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The sun is an important part of your birth chart that points to vitality, willpower, and the ways you go about manifesting your destiny.
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Patients standing alone with just their willpower and the latest diet to guide them invariably face great difficulty against a complex disease like obesity.
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I felt great respect for my friend's willpower and the idea of Ramadan: to experience deprivation in order to stir empathy with the poor.
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Avoiding the filter bubble is solely up to our own willpower to forgo base tendencies to surround ourselves with only those we agree with.
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That consensus begins with an understanding that what our society lacks in the early stages of a public health epidemic is a collective willpower.
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But in a display of discipline and willpower thus far unprecedented in her life, she keeps it up and eventually enters a 5K race.
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Lacking any of the necessary willpower to go back to my work, I spiraled further into a procrastination hole and clicked on the link.
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While researching, the fact that it's up to us and the willpower we have to do right or wrong is what really fascinated me.
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If using willpower causes stress, using these emotions actually heals: They slow heart rate, lower blood pressure and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression.
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"When it comes to willpower, those who are in touch with themselves may be better off than their people-pleasing counterparts," wrote the APA.
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Today, it's much more common for psychologists to use brain teasers that create internal, cognitive conflicts that participants have to use willpower to overcome.
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Instead of having to decide on these things in the morning and losing precious willpower and decision-making ability, decide on it the night before.
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Or is there a version where you can take a very meager amount of talent and through sheer willpower create a thing that is successful?
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Incredibly influential, textbook findings in psychology — like the "ego depletion" theory of willpower, or the "marshmallow test" — have been bending or breaking under rigorous retests.
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I used both knowledge and willpower to adjust my budget for the next month, so I would have a better chance at long-term success.
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"This is how willpower becomes a habit: by choosing a certain behavior ahead of time, and then following that routine when an inflection point arrives."
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And even though Nicky doesn't really need willpower in this situation, if she did need it, it would function quite well because she's not dieting.
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That the two are stars of equal magnitude now may be a testament to Kovalev's willpower to overcome any gaps in natural athleticism or power.
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It's the years of muscle memory, good conditioning, and hard-earned willpower which allow a fighter to maintain his form twenty minutes into a bout.
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But both of those devices require commitment from the user that's hard to keep up, especially after your willpower has been eroded by three IPAs.
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Carnegie Mellon computer science professor Jason Hong, for instance, doubted that the political willpower or efficient technology exists to train workers on a necessary scale.
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"How sad that a natural heir to his path, his willpower, his determination and his statesmanship has not been born," one man wrote on Facebook.
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When your lunch-packing-every-day-for-an-entire-month willpower begins to weaken and wane, there's a cookbook out there with a game plan.
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In addition to the willpower you're getting from Mars, your planetary ruler, lucky Jupiter, is creating opportunities for career development until the end of 2019.
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Leadership and willpower, strategy and tactics, quantity and quality of forces, technological and operational surprise — all can be far more important than wealth in warfare.
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" An abrupt reversal, indeed, for a school that at one time didn't provide hot water for showers because cold water would enhance "willpower and endurance.
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American life expectancy has increased markedly in the past century, and few would argue it's because we now lead healthier lives by dint of willpower.
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When we highlight those few against-all-odds stories, we send the message that all it takes to succeed is grit and resilience and willpower.
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Mars retrograde ends on August 27, and when it does, a boost in energy and a refreshed sense of purpose, direction, and willpower will arrive.
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And with this deal on the new MacBook Air, you'll see how your willpower is rewarded if you patiently waited throughout the hectic holiday season.
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Intense passion and willpower flows in your romantic and platonic relationships as action planet Mars harmonizes with Pluto, the planet of resources and, naturally, power.
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But resisting the cookies (or chips, or cakes, or chocolate-covered pretzels) doesn't have to feel like a constant cage match between willpower and craving.
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Most of us think change works like this: a clear goal + a careful action plan + monitoring of our behavior toward that goal + willpower = successful change.
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I've been doing drag for a while, but to join the Rockettes, I was subject to lengthy tests of my willpower, drag prowess, and loyalty.
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And once we cast aside the idea of willpower, we can better understand what actually works to accomplish goals, and hit those New Year's resolutions.
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Focusing on failures of willpower leads to shame, both public and private, and holds back our curiosity from finding and enacting solutions that actually work.
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For 30 years, Prime Minister Hun Sen, a former Khmer Rouge fighter, has wielded power through a combination of threats, clever deal-making and sheer willpower.
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There's also a Phone Coach element you can activate to try and wean you off too much smartphone use, though some level of willpower is required.
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The implications of this are huge: If we accept that brute willpower doesn't work, we can feel less bad about ourselves when we succumb to temptation.
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Pink will perform the National Anthem at Super Bowl 52, but it's going to take a little bit of willpower and a whole lot of TheraFlu.
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"No matter how much willpower you think you have, you won't be able to resist all the other things going on around you," says Dr. Rouse.
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Learn to do what you think you can't No amount of willpower, by itself, will make you a great athlete, employee or partner in a relationship.
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Most importantly, I'm building confidence in my own willpower: Once I get out of bed, I know I can tackle everything else that comes my way.
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" Adds Michael Ohoven, producer of Capote: "For somebody so intelligent and with enormous willpower to succumb to such a terrible disease, I can't even grasp it.
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Figure Out Why Your Goal is So Important Just like the memes suggest, the amount of willpower you have—psychologists call it self-control—is limited.
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You don't need a budget, you don't need to make a lot of money, and you don't even need willpower to accumulate a fortune, he writes.
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Olympian athletes are also able to maintain iron willpower and focus on the positive when they are running miles on end or (literally) leaping over hurdles.
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And the lesser known but influential concept of ego depletion — the idea that willpower is like a muscle that can be built up but also tires.
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Though experts used to think that a lack of willpower was the primary reason people abandoned their resolutions, decades of research suggest it's far more nuanced.
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A recent national survey from the University of Chicago finds that 33 percent of Americans say a lack of willpower is a barrier to weight loss.
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He also suggested fellow dieters have to white-knuckle their way to a slimmer body through sheer willpower alone — an idea obesity researchers have now abandoned.
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And overall, psychologists are shying away from the concept, as years of work suggesting that willpower is a finite, essential resource has come under intense scrutiny.
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This week, another idea whose time has come: trying to kick opioid addiction without medicines is as smart as relying on willpower to overcome diabetes or asthma.
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It takes a certain amount of willpower to start a company, but even more so when you're taking money out of your future wedding to start it.
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If someone had shown me those numbers back when I was still living in Dietland, I would have scoffed and said something about people having no willpower.
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" But Lee's mind -- his grasp of philosophy and his willpower -- was the engine that powered his physical prowess, says Bruce Thomas, author of "Bruce Lee: Fighting Words.
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Her triumph in the competition indicated to me what so many of the athletes there exemplified: a quest for unbreakable strength and willpower, both physical and mental.
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It's taking all the willpower I have not to empty my checking account to skywrite "KILLING EVE 4EVER"; that's how important this show has become to me.
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Obesity is often described as simply a matter of managing one's calories and consequently cast as a lack of willpower on the part of an overweight individual.
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These days, figuring out how to proceed is usually a question of willpower—Do I figure this out on my own or look online for a solution?
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The images are all so carefully composed, so architectural, so full of her returned gaze, that it is difficult not to feel her willpower guiding every frame.
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The researchers wanted to find out if it was the game's violent content that led to a decrease in willpower or if it was the game's difficulty.
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But your cravings for anything fried, carb-loaded, and/or covered in a layer of milk chocolate might not just be down to a lack of willpower.
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Yet scientists have learned that this is not about a shortage of willpower but about an abundance of physiological factors that make the body hold onto fat.
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Combine this with the misbelief that there is a cure for diabetes — that cure being willpower — and everyone is suddenly an expert on how to fix me.
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Less than a decade ago, the newly built international terminal at the city's old airport became a widely lauded symbol of China's industrial might and political willpower.
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"When a lot of people pool their united willpower towards a single sigil, it's called a hypersigil, and it's exponentially more potent," he explained on his website.
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His ineffectual latter years belied formidable willpower and political talent, which earned him the nickname, as Prime Minister Georges Pompidou's troubleshooter in the 1960s, of "the bulldozer".
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Denver (CNN)It took every bit of Clyde Hoffman's willpower to not touch every button, switch, and lever in Colorado's Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space Museum.
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And maintaining the willpower (and, more crucially, finding the time or money) to keep our moods buoyant, or at least intact, can feel like an uphill battle.
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Through doing this one can test the depths of their willpower and discipline and ascend to the highest echelons of humanity and graduate to 'Destroy Dick December.
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He said that it was incredible to see all of those people there in that room, how much effort and willpower and tears it took to get there.
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You've got a lot of willpower to make money on Wednesday—as the sun gently connects with power planet Pluto that morning, you can tap into something rich!
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We've seen other developers suffer through homelessness, some to great success, and it's a testament to the willpower, determination, and passion that many people in this industry have.
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If you also haven't slept well, or are angry or stressed out on the road, you won't have the willpower you need to drive defensively and stay alert.
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You can earn points and rewards for overcoming temptations, compete against your friends in willpower battles, or join a guild to find other players with similar struggles. 5.
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Meanwhile, Amanda, one of the tiniest girls in the house, musters all her willpower to make her way to the last platform to be with her man Joss.
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It is also possible to curb how much you eat and get a doggie bag for leftovers, but many of us do not have this kind of willpower.
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"If we rely on willpower, we're going to run out of steam," says Tim Pychyl, PhD, associate professor of psychology and procrastination expert at Carleton University in Ontario.
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Some posh spas now offer to block mobile signals, ensuring that high-rolling guests who lack the willpower to use an off-switch get a chance at seclusion.
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Video tagging could generate extra visits for Instagram as few people have the willpower to ignore a notification that they were named in a new piece of content.
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Things doctors have recommended to overweight patients for years like logging food in a diary, using willpower to resist overeating and getting 10,000 steps a day haven't worked.
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She is passionate, confident, and has the energy and willpower it takes to achieve wild dreams; her chart shows someone who is literally born to be a star.
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But what people of other faiths may not realize is that they are participating in our spiritual boot camp, helping Muslims build willpower in more ways than one.
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And it offers insight into how a powerful industry draws out seemingly banal disputes with regular people who rarely have the money, willpower, or time to fight back.
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Ms. Nie said in a telephone interview on Monday that she was struck by Ms. Liu's willpower: She continued selling clothes even after she began using a wheelchair.
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In the present, the issue becomes whether anyone has the willpower and a sufficient sense of honor to fight against lies that are already out in the open.
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The public, on the other hand, generally believes obesity is caused by a lack of willpower, and that it can be fixed with gym memberships and trendy diets.
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I get a little buzzed from the beer but have enough willpower to wash my makeup off and I manage to slather on some rosehip oil before bed.
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In some grand show of sheer willpower, they exert all their energy towards some worthy goal — starting to write a book, working out, going back to school, etc.
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The novelist uses brute willpower to close his mind to painful reality, while the policeman struggles to understand his quarry by reading Huston's notes for an unfinished novel.
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What adrenaline does for the body, moral clarity does for semantics: It generates a surge of willpower, serving as a prelude to — and maybe a pretext for — combat.
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And different from a "just do it!" orientation to achieving change, it acknowledges that our inner forces — motivation and willpower — are necessary ingredients to make those behavior changes.
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In my case, those diets would be a professional liability, and to be perfectly honest, I don't know that I've got the willpower to stick to either one.
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Joining a group whose members practice behaviors you&aposd like to adopt is another great way to bolster your willpower, because having role models improves self-control.4.
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But the exact opposite is true — people who harshly blame themselves for even small willpower failures tend to do worse in accomplishing their goals in the long run.
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"There is so much bias and judgment about people who are overweight, that it's their fault or they're lazy or just don't have enough willpower," Dr. Allison said.
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The test was a tool to chart the development of a young mind and to see how kids use their cognitive tools to conquer a tough willpower challenge.
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Each transplant saves the government about $150,000, so what's preventing us from ending the shortage is more a lack of willpower and awareness than a lack of options.
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Even with friendly tax policies, Boucher recognized that, at the end of the day, it's political willpower that would drive the creation of Canada's off-planet resource industry.
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For many years, Inzlicht explains, psychologists assumed that the self-control measured by the questionnaire measured the same thing (or something overlapping) as the behavioral tests of willpower.
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Adding to the confusion is the fact that in recent years, rigorous retesting of social science theories, like the willpower theory of ego depletion, has come crashing down.
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It helps me with exercising willpower and restraint: If I've committed to a zero-dollar day, I'll manage my Diet Coke cravings and ignore the siren call of Sweetgreen.
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She sits patiently and quietly when she first sees a dog and I can see her using all her little willpower to be good so she can say hello.
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While Solar Impulse 2 is a remarkable technological achievement, the vision, willpower, and determination of its pilots and engineers played no small part in the initiative's record-breaking successes.
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Women may not be able to surpass systemic hurdles like the wage gap through sheer willpower, but there are a few things they can do to improve their finances.
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I was yolk and albumen, held together by willpower and rage, unable to realize that my shell was gone and that I should have splattered wetly on the ground.
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But when I came back as a citizen it still took six years because I couldn't find the political willpower to overcome the strength of the Catholic leadership lobby.
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Since it appears we lack the willpower to curb our worst impulses when it comes to the oceans, a few band-aids may be all we can hope for.
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Not practicing what you preach; lacking the willpower to live up to your own ideals; behaving in ways you obviously know are wrong — these are clear moral failings. Perhaps.
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As a callow youth, I spent a frightening amount of my daytime hours during the weekends sleeping off hangovers and vaguely trying to muster the willpower to do laundry.
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These nearly burned spots are my favorite, and it takes all my willpower not to pick them off before bringing the pan to the table for everyone to share.
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That means building habits instead of worrying about willpower, explained Dr. R. Todd Hurst, center director for cardiovascular health at Banner University Medical Center's Phoenix Heart Institute in Arizona.
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Call it a lack of willpower, or a lack of confidence, or a combination of the two, but the tendency to overbuy at the beauty counter isn't entirely our fault.
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As you'll learn in "The Automatic Millionaire," you don't need a budget, you don't need to make a lot of money and you don't even need willpower to get ahead.
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Children, families, and the elderly all walking across a continent is truly a feat that will, in kinder times, be recognized for the courage, willpower, and desperation that it requires.
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This is violence that the US cannot stop but can benefit from, if we have the willpower to let our enemies fight each other for as long as they can.
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This post will contain spoilers for those with amazing willpower and/or an incredibly busy social life who still haven't finished the fourth season of Orange Is The New Black.
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At least, that's the premise behind Screen Time, a feature that lets you see just how much you're using your phone and set some limits — if you have the willpower.
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Scientists have shown how diminished willpower can affect our ability to hold on to a handgrip, sap our motivation to help another in need, and even negatively impact athletic performance.
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The good news is you can change what you like or dislike, not by forcing yourself to like it (that's willpower, again) but by changing the nature of the activity.
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Of course, it's a dream job, but it really does become a test of your willpower as a taco lover because you need to eat an ungodly amount of tacos.
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But the reason why we often let our fitness dreams fall by the wayside isn't a lack of willpower, but a lack of visibility into all the progress we're making.
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To wit, we have the popular willpower to pass gun legislation—the American people want this and arguments to the contrary can demonstrably be proven false at the ballot box.
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Then, out of sheer willpower and a lot of luck, he kept the snow insulated under a tarp for six weeks, occasionally adding to it when a fresh layer fell.
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That August, The New York Times Magazine published a 5,500-word article on "Decision Fatigue"—the theory that willpower can be depleted by having too many choices in everyday life.
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On "Interventions," fast, repeated riffs become collaborative acts, over drones and strong skeletal grooves that stress the upbeat, and the whole thing is held together by concentration, timing and willpower.
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Richard W. Pound, an I.O.C. delegate from Montreal and a former president of WADA, has repeatedly questioned whether the financing and willpower are in place to combat doping in sports.
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In many cultures, people who are obese are viewed as stereotypically lazy, lacking in willpower, incompetent, unattractive and personally responsible for their excess weight, researchers note in the journal Obesity.
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"On Columbus Day, we commemorate the achievements of this skilled Italian explorer and recognize his courage, willpower, and ambition – all values we cherish as Americans," Trump said in his proclamation.
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Ava's response will be the first move in a sprawling mental chess game of emotion, deception, and willpower, the winner of which could change what it means to be human.
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For most of 2018, you've been trying to figure out exactly why you do that you do as Mars, the planet that represents your willpower, occupied your house of philosophy.
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This isn't to say that Mark Hollis is a total anomaly—Bill Withers and Captain Beefheart are proof that with enough willpower, one can escape the music industry for good.
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According to Duhigg, many people think of breaking habits as a matter of willpower and that leads to them reverting to what they know when they get tired or stressed.
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It takes a lot of internal strength and willpower, and you still get all those annoying growing pains, body awkwardness and social anxiety that were there the first time around.
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With U.S. equipment and intelligence married to Colombian willpower, that fight so decimated the guerrillas' power that Uribe's successor, President Juan Manuel Santos, could force them to the negotiating table.
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Receiving Nevaeh's forgiveness was a huge boost to her willpower, she said, but the meetings were vital to understanding that she was not the only one battling such a compulsion.
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"In our studies, people who primarily relied on willpower failed at three times the rate of everyone else," Norcross said, adding that many steps are needed to make a resolution last.
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Constantly turning down indulgences, from a latte to a vacation, can use up your willpower and eventually lead you to overspend, self-made millionaire and personal finance author Ramit Sethi says.
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That's a display of willpower that even at 36 I'm not totally capable of pulling off (I get sweats if I realize I forgot my phone before going to the bathroom).
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Somehow, we think both companies are betting most customers won't be that cheap (or have that much willpower), and you'll actually get some dinner or lunch to go with that dessert.
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As an example, Duhigg cites a 2005 University of Pennsylvania study that found that students with stronger willpower were more likely to get better grades and be admitted into selective schools.
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No willpower to keep on living would work the way it had for her unsinkable Molly Brown on that night the Titanic and its passengers went down around Debbie on film.
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But exploration for the sake of being the first, and testing willpower, nerve and endurance, has been giving way to a higher-minded thirst to preserve the planet for future generations.
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Unlike the 5-2 diet, which requires two days of low calories at any point in the week, Longo's diet involves fasting for five consecutive days, which requires much more willpower.
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But though scientific research shows that diet and exercise are insufficient solutions, a large majority say fat people should be able to summon the willpower to lose weight on their own.
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As you'll learn in "The Automatic Millionaire," you don't need a budget, you don't need to make a lot of money and you don't even need willpower to accumulate a fortune.
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But the larger truth that the data doesn't show, he said, is that ISIS "still retains the willpower and safe haven to regrow and potentially regain" the territory it has lost.
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I very quickly learned that five minutes is an excruciating amount of time to hold plank position and that I have very little stamina and, apparently, a gigantic lack of willpower.
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A majority of Americans in a recent survey said that overweight people should be able to summon the willpower to lose weight on their own, despite evidence that obesity is genetic.
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"While it is still an uphill battle, we are optimistic that the women's movement in Argentina has the stamina and willpower to see this fight through to the end," she said.
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This would be a bit odd so soon after the first one, but there's nothing preventing the government from calling a do-over, and there might be political willpower for it.
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Yes, it took willpower, but I was armed with the knowledge that 12 hours after one has had a last cigarette, the little hairs in one's lungs start to grow back.
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I hope for legislators who see the need to take care of their citizens, and that this country will have the stamina, concern and willpower to provide health care to all.
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You still need willpower, users say, but kratom can cut down on opioid cravings and withdrawal symptoms, allowing them to get back to their lives with few, if any, side effects.
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Be kind to yourself, even during setbacksMost people believe the way to increase willpower is to "whip oneself into shape," because being kind to oneself is indulgent and lacks self discipline.
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For those of us that have a harder time exercising control, there are some tricks you can have up your sleeve for when you're in major need of a willpower boost.
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Losing 100 pounds can't have been some titanic act of individual will, as I've proven fairly conclusively over the first 26 years of my life that my willpower is mediocre at best.
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" Geminis definitely shouldn't date Scorpios, the writer argues, because: "Scorpio demands exclusivity and fidelity before you even kiss ... With their willpower and manipulative charm, you'll quickly become the sub to their dom.
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If we can dream of the insurmountable task of becoming multi-planetary, then surely we can fathom expending the energy, resources and willpower that come with making mindful purchase and waste decisions.
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Once Mars has left Aries with a bang, the action planet enters Taurus at 5:51 AM on Thursday, where its typically savage willpower pretends to be way too civilized to argue.
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But it's also the case that everyone can fall prey to losing their willpower, especially when they're under stress, feeling lonely, feeling alienated, feeling disappointed, feeling bored and many other emotional states.
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First, Danielle was both fascinated and repelled by this profile of Oregon basketball star Sabrina Ionescu, whose sheer willpower, toughness, and intelligence have made her an all-time great in college basketball.
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Iowa, a state that became first in the process around 50 years ago has essentially managed to maintain an iron grip on the Democratic primary process, purely through willpower and political extortion.
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Surrounding yourself with junk food when you're on a diet and browsing items you want to buy when you're on a tight budget will cause your willpower gas tank to run dry.
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The results suggest that activity monitors may not change our behavior in the way we expected, and raise interesting questions about the tangled relationships between exercise, eating, our willpower and our waistlines.
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The film finds her guilty of at least one thing that's seen as a virtue across most of Silicon Valley: believing her own passion and willpower could overcome the challenges of science.
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Ego depletion is a theory that finds when a task requires a lot of mental energy — resisting temptations, regulating emotions — it depletes a store of internal willpower and dulls our mental edge.
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Lumberjack shirts that once languished in the back of the closet have come out in force, while others have found the willpower to toss their all-black wardrobes and start wearing neons.
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The list includes: ego depletion, the idea that willpower is a finite resource; the facial feedback hypothesis, which suggested if we activate muscles used in smiling, we become happier; and many more.
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In a spectacular instance of one great power instigating regime change in another, the Germans essentially weaponized Lenin's willpower and charisma by infiltrating him back into Russia in a closed railroad car.
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But a new study suggests that exercise might be a simple if unexpected way to increase our willpower and perhaps help us to avoid making impulsive choices that we will later regret.
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Ashleigh Barty, Dellacqua's doubles partner and a fellow Australian, praised her for her focus and willpower in winning a doubles title last weekend in Strasbourg, France, in the face of the controversy.
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Even after everything she finds out about the resiliency of fat, she comes away with the firm conviction that obesity is all about willpower — and that weight loss is the ultimate goal.
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ForestScreenshot: GizmodoIf you need some extra motivation to go with your willpower when it comes to leaving your phone alone for a short time, would growing a digital forest of trees help?
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"When you put food on a pedestal, and only focus on willpower to avoid your favorite foods, you create an unhealthy relationship with food and are more likely to overeat," said Alpert.
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Six in 10 smokers want to give up but most who try rely only on willpower -- or going "cold turkey" -- which is the least effective way to quit, the health body said.
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And yet the emerging scientific consensus is that the obesity crisis is the result of a number of factors, including genes and the food environment — and, crucially, not a lack of willpower.
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For years I've been studying the effects of these emotions on decision-making and behavior, and I've found that unlike reason and willpower, they naturally incline us to be patient and persevere.
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Not just through sheer willpower but technologically, with the use of a custom-built tool that would literally prevent my devices from accessing these companies, and them from accessing me and my data.
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Now I can stand by the dessert table all night without getting a sugar hangover — and it's not a matter of "willpower," it's just a matter of eating what tastes and feels good.
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A Komari-ed bedroom, closet or (gasp) pantry is the result of willpower and patient scrutiny; a space free of emotionally stifling clutter whispers the possibilities of an easier, neater life to come.
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Looking like you had the willpower to resist these now more widely available delights, rather than the means to enjoy them, became attractive — and, for women often judged on their appearance, an imperative.
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The last thing we want to do is to try to oppose these feelings of cravings with willpower because willpower's like a muscle; it gets tired after a while and it gives way.
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Fortunately, the president's political rhetoric has not matched congressional willpower; the legislative body actually added $3 million to the NEA's budget for a total $153 million in its March 2018 omnibus spending bill.
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Her heroic gesture of independence and willpower ends with her struggling to survive in various backwater towns, using the tricks of her trade to bamboozle local officials and squat in a mayoral mansion.
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It is a matter of superior punch, superior speed, superior versatility and, perhaps, even superior willpower, as much as it must pain the driven Sharapova to consider that possibility with the crickets chirping.
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They and others had been recruited for their expertise and because running a company with tens of thousands of employees—from hourly workers to PhD scientists—required more than just genius and willpower.
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Vida, a tough-tackling center back personifying Croatia's willpower in the face of adversity, said the team would go the extra mile for their skipper and Mrmic, who traveled home early on Wednesday.
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If the last 70 years of peace on the European continent show us anything, it's that the international political willpower and the joint military resources mustered by NATO are critical to global security.
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They'll have the luxury of talking about success and failure as absolutes as if they are two fixed points on a complete circle that we are guaranteed to reach with a little willpower.
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Distraction, relaxation, meditation: these techniques can help, too, in the person who takes them seriously, as ways to offset bouts of anxiety or despair that can make willpower go right out the window.
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The rest is about making healthy choices the easiest ones by turning them into instinctual rituals of daily life that people don&apost have to think about or use willpower to fight for.
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Resolutions are a helpful tool for testing ourselves and improving our willpower, but if you&aposre having a really hard time sticking to your new vow, you might be better off giving up.
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From 5K mud runs to marathon-length willpower tests, obstacle course racing has taken off in a huge way since 2010 thanks to companies like Tough Mudder, Spartan Race, Rugged Maniac, and more.
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The willpower of the ruling classes, or lack thereof, has become an especially pressing topic in Washington, as elected officials debate how forcefully to stand up to President Trump on policy and governing.
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"The U.S. wielded the tariff stick once again because of its misjudgments on China's strength, capability, and willpower," Beijing said in an op-ed published in the state-run China Daily on Monday.
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In fact, a study from the University of Zurich and Stanford University found that students who viewed willpower as an infinite resource actually performed better than those who viewed it as a finite resource.
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Most Americans think lack of willpower is to blame for obesity, according to a new survey conducted by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and NORC at the University of Chicago.
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"A lack of individual willpower is cited as the biggest barrier to weight loss, and a majority of people with obesity attempt to lose weight without the help of medical professionals," reads the survey.
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She's teetering on the edge of breaking down, as grief and anger begin to set in, but she rarely lets go of her willpower, even in the face of personal, professional, and political obstacles.
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A 2012 study, headed up by Hagger, found that even just swishing a sugary drink around in one's mouth seemed to give people more willpower to perform feats of physical strength or tedious tasks.
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How, with each successive bite, he demonstrated his pure willpower and perseverance, trying to shove just one more bite of a hero into his mouth, doomed to fail but destined to go down swinging?
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Mosher: There isn't the political willpower, because of that, and we're really pinched for dollars, with all of the domestic issues and climate change and other major priorities that are happening here on Earth.
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Teaching kids to strengthen their willpower and giving them age-appropriate independence when it comes to saving and spending will provide a foundation that allows them to grow into responsible, successful adults, she said.
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"There isn't the appetite or willpower to bring changes to the Endangered Species Act at the congressional level," noted John Vucetich, a biologist at Michigan Technological University focused on carnivore conservation, notably endangered wolves.
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Energy toward schoolwork, publishing, and traveling gets a strong boost on Thursday as the planet of willpower, Mars, enters Pisces to give you a refreshed sense of direction for the remainder of the year.
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Thursday marks the beginning of a hectic period, as action planet Mars enters your house of daily routine and busywork to give you plenty of willpower to wrap everything up before the new year!
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In their test, participants were assigned to play video games of varying levels of violence and difficulty, and then later took a brain teaser to test how much of their willpower had been sapped.
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In both cases, these bills—like other reform attempts—languished after being sent to relevant committees, either because there was not enough willpower or bandwidth to consider them or because they simply lacked support.
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Whereas the construction trucks are all ambition and drive, this stunningly beautiful book presents a refreshingly new sensibility: Willpower alone can only get you so far; sometimes it's best to go with the flow.
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There are lots of ideas on here, though, buds which will never gain full flower, as if Kanye didn't have the time or willpower to give them more than the initial spark of life.
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Baking a batch of fudgy brownies and only grabbing one is a level of willpower few of us actually have—but with this trick from Christina El Moussa you don't have to practice much restraint.
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Although medical professionals have long viewed over- and undereating as separate issues, the former rooted in a lack of willpower and the latter in a self-destructive need for control, Satter sees them as related.
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Indeed, a whole line of research, based on a seminal study published in 1998, suggested that not only is human willpower a depletable resource, but it's also drawn from a singular source in the brain.
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Second, despite spending almost every waking moment with her brood of sisters, Kourtney has somehow exerted extreme willpower and avoided the temptation to even swipe one of the glosses across the back of her hand.
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When I crested the final hill and collapsed into my teammate's arms just across the finish line, there's no doubt in my mind that people saw my stubborn willpower — not the sickness it sprang from.
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And then when it doesn't work, we attribute our lack of success to one of the three inputs: We weren't motivated enough, or we didn't have a good plan, or we didn't have enough willpower.
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"It's frustrating to see doctors and the general public stigmatize patients with obesity and blame these patients, ascribing attributes of laziness or lack of willpower," Dr. Donna Ryan, an obesity researcher, told The New York Times.
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And to keep your attention focused, inexpensive productivity aids like Cold Turkey, Freedom and RescueTime block the internet and time-wasting apps if you don't have the willpower to go offline or get away from Facebook.
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Ironically, the whole story of ego depletion suggests that the gold standard of experimental psychology — running repeatable experiments in which variables can be carefully controlled — might not be the best way to test willpower, Hagger said.
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That's why some progressives have been expressing their general anxiety over the prospect of a Supreme Court without Ginsburg — and their resulting determination to keep her alive by way of sheer willpower — for quite some time.
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A good deal of the national dialogue, willpower, and war chest for gun issues is about to get sucked up into the gaping black hole that is Donald Trump's all-screaming, all-nonsensical gun policy agenda.
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And I feel that focusing on tiny purchases just ends up making people feel bad and shamed about their spending — like there's something wrong with them because they lack the willpower not to buy a latte.
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Though far from sexy, spending your energy and willpower on the actions described by these 48 words is likely to have a far greater impact on your health than jumping on the latest zealot's restrictive bandwagon.
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He found that by lifting the spirits of participants with comedic videos and gifts, he was able to produce a good mood that overshadowed some of the willpower-depletion effects normally seen after exercising self-control.
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We see this myth in our drug court systems, which frequently deny clients access to evidence-based pharmacotherapies like methadone or buprenorphine, encouraging them to rely on willpower and morals, not medicine, to resolve their condition.
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Don't rely on willpower aloneImage: ScreenshotJudging by the number of applications and utilities around to help you limit your time on sites like Facebook and Twitter, there are a lot of people who feel it's a problem.
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I am home in my PJs and am totally exhausted, but this meet up is a bon voyage for my good friend M., who is moving to NY, so I muster up the willpower to get dressed.
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Susan B. Roberts, the director of the Energy Metabolism Lab at Tufts, points out that you don't have weak willpower if you want to suck down the entire meal you are served and then lick the plate.
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Ha's physical strength and willpower, as well as the discipline gained from his time in the military, fuelled his rapid ascent in the endurance sport, said Lim Myung-woong, the national team coach who encouraged his transition.
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While eating puts extra stress on the gut, not eating for extended periods of time requires a lot of willpower (something us humans are notoriously terrible at harnessing), and might result in bingeing, releasing stress hormones, too.
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People who do the same activity, like running or meditating, at the same time each day have an easier time accomplishing their goals, he says — not because of their willpower, but because the routine makes it easier.
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First, participants had to do a task involving willpower (eating radishes instead of cookies, making a persuasive speech that ran counter to their own beliefs or suppressing their emotions during a clip of the film "Terms of Endearment").
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While 53 percent of the public sees prescription drug addiction as a disease, 44 percent say it shows a lack of willpower or discipline, while 32 percent say it is caused by a character defect or bad parenting.
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Not in a sedate or relaxing way, but the way that sometimes you feel like you are clinging to emptiness with all your willpower, always on the verge of letting it slip away and having something else intrude.
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I do perceive it to be harder for women to advance into certain roles, but I would argue it's not for sexist reasons, men with less physical strength or mental willpower have just as hard a time advancing.
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Years ago, at the height of my instability, my husband and I saw "A Beautiful Mind," and I thought, if John Nash can cure himself of his schizophrenia by sheer willpower, I should be able to stop obsessing.
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Related: How to organize your work week Barker is drawing here from the scientific literature on self-control, the bulk of which has suggested that willpower is a limited resource, something that becomes depleted as the day wears on.
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Professor Bartlett says using good old willpower on sugar is tough: "Like other drugs of abuse, withdrawal from chronic sucrose exposure can result in an imbalance in dopamine levels and be as difficult as going cold turkey," she said.
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Here's something to think about as you try to drown that hangover with melted cheese: it might not be the influence of your enabling mates or those 2-for-1 cocktail offers that cause you lose willpower around alcohol.
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While there is no specific definition of alcoholism in AA, its members agree that alcoholism is generally "a physical compulsion, coupled with a mental obsession" and that treatment is not based on willpower alone or creating periods of abstinence.
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Kenin may not have the strength or build of her Spanish opponent, but what she lacked in power she made up for in willpower as she took down double Grand Slam winner Muguruza 212-6 6-2 6-2.
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"All you need are the right shampoo and conditioner, one or two well-chosen styling products and the willpower to not touch your hair or tuck it behind your ears," Lexi Salkin of Blackstones, a N.Y.C. hair salon, told PEOPLE.
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But I encourage you to resist the trap I have fallen into consistently now for a decade: assuming that what I need at any given moment is a new to-do app, rather than the willpower necessary to get things done.
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We each get a hot chocolate and a sandwich, and I split a dessert with my friend because I have zero willpower and pretend that everything in Europe is made with better quality ingredients and therefore is good for me.
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He presumes obesity and diabetes are self-inflicted and that individuals can make changes — at a time when most researchers would argue these epidemics are driven not by a failure of willpower but rather by our calorie-drenched, obesogenic environment.
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They ultimately identified 59 distinct experiences one could have trouble with during a meditative session, which they divided into seven categories: changes in cognition, mood, motivation or willpower, physical perception, physical sensation, one's sense of self, or one's social relations.
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The other holds that you have a finite amount of willpower and if you spend a significant amount of energy avoiding, say, cookies early in the day, you will have less later on to motivate you to forego taking an Uber.
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Egypt may have the manpower to serve as the backbone of a force in Syria but they lack the willpower to do so and have also had trouble dealing with several ongoing crises in their own backyard, according to Heras.
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Over the last year, it has become increasingly difficult to screen politically controversial films in Hong Kong, said Vincent Chui, a filmmaker and the artistic director of the independent film collective Ying E Chi, which means "Film Willpower" in Cantonese.
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I loved the drama of cutting my cards into pieces, but I found leaving them intact and relying on my own willpower to ultimately be more effective in managing my spending and making progress on my $23,000 of credit card debt.
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The closing scene of the novel is a scene of terrifying passivity: She lets a wraithlike man into her bed because she can't summon the energy to stop him, as if she has finally lost touch with her willpower entirely.
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Willpower alone has been shown to be an ineffective means of controlling diet, and without any investment in structured education, or delicious, balanced school dinners to use as templates, how is anyone to know what to make of calorie counts?
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Some scientists say our willpower is limited (others disagree), and when we expend it early on in the day trying to decide what to do next, we have less left later in the day when we need to concentrate on work.
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That all sounds very much like the president isn't picking and choosing who will suffer the most from his trade war based on who has the willpower to sit by nodding politely as he chokes down a rock-hard steak.
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This may be a factor, but research suggests that building strong habits can significantly improve self-control by making behavior more automatic and effortless rather than relying on willpower and decision-making, both of which can be exhausted or depleted.
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"Even those of us who are fully technically capable and have the time, understanding and willpower to make it a priority, those agreements are one-sided agreements," said Daniel Kahn Gillmor, internet security technologist at the American Civil Liberties Union.
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But while those who give in to food cravings and binge at night may blame flagging willpower, a new study suggests the problem could lie in the complex orchestra of hormones that drive hunger and signal feelings of satiety, or fullness.
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It all got old pretty fast, but there was something deeply restful about basically putting my brain to sleep for five days and living a life where my greatest act of willpower was drinking a cup of too-hot green tea.
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And the obesity epidemic doesn't exist because more than 200 million individual people lack willpower, or love food too much, or are too lazy to exercise, or whatever other crap is routinely trotted out to explain why any one person is fat.
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One metric: The share of white Democrats who believe that racial inequality is caused by a "lack of willpower" among black people has declined dramatically and more white Democrats accept that racial inequality is due to discrimination, according to the General Social Survey.
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Related: This 5-minute trick can make you less lazy "The longer people have been awake, the more self-control problems happen," Roy F. Baumeister, a psychology researcher at Florida State University and one of the leading experts on willpower, tells Barker.
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The authors, Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler don't write off willpower altogether — it's still important, but there are five other factors, they point out, that influence whether you will successfully make changes in your life. 1.
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Super History & Cache Cleaner (free) for Chrome, FirefoxImpulse BlockerScreenshot: GizmodoImpulse BlockerIf your web browsing is forever getting interrupted by the temptations of Twitter, Netflix, and others, get Impulse Blocker set up in your browser and give your willpower a little bit of help.
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Clayton Kershaw — the same southpaw who decimated National League lineups this spring with six consecutive starts of 10-plus strikeouts, the same bundle of sheer willpower and deadly curveballs that struck out 150 batters while walking just nine — broke down in June.
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If our country had real willpower we would get rid of the silly and outdated Electoral College once and for all and allow this country's chief magistrate to be chosen by a straightforward vote of all the people, rather than Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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Precisely because it's on Netflix, and precisely because it's been hiding the most unlikely sentiments in a mostly unlikely place, White Nights is worth a watch, if only for a momentarily glimpse of a world where women shatter the glass ceiling through subversive willpower.
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On Wednesday, March 13, the sun connects with power planet Pluto at 10:113 AM before squaring off with generous Jupiter at 9:29 PM. On or around Wednesday morning, there is an ability to tap into a deep well of willpower, a great resource.
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If we can change that narrative, and see people as human beings in all their complexity, with their beauty and their flaws, I think then, as a society, maybe there would be more willpower to address the injustices that places like North Philly endure consistently.
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Anyone who's ever chosen to hold in a desperate piss for several hours (or indeed, forgo sleep) in order to negotiate a particularly tricky spell of fixtures will perhaps realise that they have internalised key techniques employed by actual cults for quashing followers' willpower.
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" They said that her involuntary manslaughter conviction was for her "pressuring text messages and phone calls, preying upon well-known weaknesses, fears, anxieties and promises, that finally overcame the willpower to live of a mentally ill, vulnerable, young person, thereby coercing him to commit suicide.
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But Trump is only half right; his wall will be a construction project borne of the United States federal government, a massive undertaking that will span thousands of miles, take years to build and require an incredible amount of political willpower and bureaucratic maneuvering.
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"I'm excited to share with them that there is potentially something going on in the brain that makes it more difficult for them to break this cycle of behavior, as opposed to feeling self-blame or that 'I don't have enough willpower,' " she said.
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For addiction treatment providers, that's led to new debates about the merits of the abstinence-only model — many of which essentially consider addiction a failure of willpower — so long supported in the US. The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, which Hansen works for, exemplifies the debate.
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It's also taking the very specific step of not carrying out any deliveries to people who are self-isolating, although as with many of the measures that are being put in place, a lot of the execution is down to personal willpower and judgement.
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In a bleak report last fall, the United Nations warned that the world had wasted so much time mustering the willpower to combat climate change that drastic, unprecedented cuts in emissions are now the only way to avoid an ever-intensifying cascade of consequences.
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We as society have become more materialistic, I think advertising does have its part to play with its tendency to suggest that we can't be happy unless we have x, y, z—but obviously it's down to the individual purchaser as well, a little willpower.
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"We as a society associate obesity with poor health, irresponsible behavior, people who are seen as lazy, people who don't care about their health and don't have the willpower to keep their weight at an acceptable level, whatever that level might be," he told BuzzFeed News.
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Other studies have found that as people improve willpower in one area of their lives — in the gym or with their eating habits — good habits then spill over into other parts of their lives, such as how they manage their money or perform at work, Duhigg reports.
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Last Thursday, the vice president of Heritage Action for America, a top conservative think tank, said Senators McCain, Burr and Cruz were taking "exactly the right position," and that an effective, long-term blockade of the court will require "an immense amount of willpower" from Senate Republicans.
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"When people believe they're lazy and lack willpower, they may be less confident in their ability to make healthy food choices, to try a different kind of exercise, and that may be a pathway by which we're seeing associations between stigma and poor health," Pearl says.
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"Picking fonts for a new site design is a terrifying test of human willpower because there are so many typefaces out there, and they all say subtle things about a publication that you don't quite realize until it's live," Motherboard's Editor-in-Chief, Derek Mead, told me.
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The beauty of finding ways to cut back on your big, recurring expenses is that you keep saving that money every month with no additional effort, whereas if you're following the "latte factor" and trying to cut back on small things, that requires willpower every single day.
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Fiery Mars enters Scorpio on December 9, warming up the home and family sector of your chart, boosting your energy around tackling issues concerning your living situation, whether that means addressing an issue with a roommate or finding the willpower to handle some home repairs you've been procrastinating.
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Image: ScreenshotOf course willpower is required too—Google Calendar isn't going to get up early and do your yoga exercises for you—but having a smart assistant in tow to show you exactly when you should be fitting in time for developing good habits can make a real difference.
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That's because a binge-then-restrict plan requires a heck of a lot of willpower, especially if you're denying yourself foods you really crave, explains Claudia T. Felty, PhD, RD. "Over time, you're going to be around those foods and you're going to be tempted by them," she says.
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I am young but fat, so people wonder if I have the sort of diabetes that just happens for no reason, typically to very young people, or if I have the sort that I brought on myself through what people perceive as a lack of willpower and self-control.
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If the house in a home invasion story is a metaphor for America, then Don't Breathe's house is a decrepit, ugly shell of material greed — one that seems held together by sheer willpower on the part of the terrifying (but admittedly badass), gun-wielding white veteran at its center.
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This one girl tells me her guy problems, and I have to wait several days before I can gather the willpower to lie and tell her what she wants to hear so she'll leave me alone and stop trying to convince me that these weird boys are in love with her.
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And when it spit me out, I was back at my desk, bleary-eyed, writing this review on Monday morning after spending the night watching Planet Earth II in VR. It takes significant willpower to turn away from a device that's showing you massive 3D images of lions attacking a giraffe.
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That weakness is willpower: A human is just as likely to be able and willing to keep their smartphone enclosed in the in-car Faraday cage as they are to reliably turn on Airplane mode and ignore their device while driving, which is to say not very likely at all.
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While the boy pictured in "If We Believe in Theory #2" has his head thrown back dramatically in soft-focused fear, the girl in "If We Believe in Theory #29" points to her imagined wolf with a sense of willpower and a look of determination, well-suited to overcome her challenger.
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Much of the fun in the show's early episodes (I've seen four) stems from Jesse's frantic, flopsweat-drenched attempts to prevent his father from finding out about some of his bad behavior, while Eli glides above it all, trying to keep his megachurch empire alive through sheer inertia and willpower.
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Auctions, on the other hand, are a test of willpower – do you spend your whole allotment of auction cash on a huge plate of freshly cooked food, or a letter from a family member, or do you wait in the hopes of being able to bid for and win an in-game advantage?
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While we know the designer would never be caught dead anywhere in the vicinity of actual carbs, shielding his eyes with a pizza printed lens seems like a fun way to both freshen up the octogenarian's look while also paying testimony to that man's formidable, superhuman levels of willpower and self-denial.
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The mercury in New York City's Times Square was expected to drop to about 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 12 Celsius) with a wind chill at nearly 0 F (minus 18C) during the final hours of 2017, the National Weather Service said, testing the willpower of hundreds of thousands of New Year's Eve revelers.
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"It's frustrating to see doctors and the general public stigmatize patients with obesity and blame these patients, ascribing attributes of laziness or lack of willpower," said Dr. Donna Ryan, an obesity researcher and professor emerita at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., who was not involved with the study.
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In its ruling affirming her conviction, the SJC had said that Carter's "wanton and reckless conduct" through her "pressuring text messages and phone calls" preyed on the weaknesses, fears, and anxieties of a vulnerable young man who had mental illness, overcame his willpower to live, and coerced him to die by suicide.
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The premise—that we're all hamsters on a hyper-accelerating, artificially augmented wheel, racing to stay on top of a world that demands every ounce of our attention and willpower, every efficiency hack and productivity software, in a vain hope to 'compete' with AI and autonomous systems—is bleak, and it is also now.
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He had, by his telling, a Horatio Alger story of growing up poor in Detroit and using his smarts and willpower to pull himself out of it and into Yale and then medical school, which was music to the ears of economic conservatives eager to say it's possible to escape poverty through hard work.
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If you peruse the books on the best-seller lists, you'll find variations on a theme: The best way to increase self-control is to use our willpower (and related mental capacities like executive function — that part of the mind that directs planning and reasoning) to ignore or suppress our craving for immediate pleasure.
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" The 21-year-old music video producer, who said he'll be posting a video to his Youtube channel about his grandfather, also posted a photo in tribute to Joe this week, writing that his grandpa is "an example of sheer willpower and dedication" who taught him to "take pride in the Jackson name and what it really means.
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Not all of this willpower has historically been translated into the most comprehensive legislation, but good templates are constantly emerging, through pilot programs, nascent policy shifts, or other proposals, for plugging up the gaps that make guns easily accessible, and for disrupting the cultures and patterns of violence that undergird most of America's mass shooting epidemic.
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In a YouTube from a 2014 TedX talk viewed more than 2 million times, addiction and cancer researcher Jonathan Bricker, affiliate associate professor of psychology at the University of Washington, describes how he's come to see that ACT is more effective for controlling cravings like junk food or cigarettes than the typical approach of trying to gin up willpower.
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" The novel, he says, "unfolds a distinctive array of timely concerns — the subjugation of women of color, human trafficking, female solidarity, personal and institutional conflicts that knot together issues of race, class, gender and religion — and explores them through the suffering, willpower and undiminished dignity of a small frightened girl turned resolute young woman turned gentle old nun.
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This new way of thinking about the political economy is winning converts less on the strength of any particular argument about money creation or inflation than on the implications of its reframing of our political and economic constraints, and its suggestion that solving much of what ails our increasingly unequal society is a matter of willpower rather than finances.
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The list includes: ego depletion (the idea that willpower is a finite resource); the facial feedback hypothesis (if we activate the smile muscles in our mouths, we actually become happier); the heartwarming finding that reading fiction improves empathy and theory of mind (but you should still read anyway; it's great); and how a whiff of the hormone oxytocin can make us more trusting.
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Even more so when you consider that Kasai competes in one of winter sport's most daredevil events, one where most jumpers retire in their early 30s having either lost the willpower to maintain the impeccable flexibility needed to achieve the longest jumps, or become psychologically frayed at the prospect of concussion, broken bones, or worse which can result from mistiming a landing.
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While people who regularly exercise often worry about having too little time, willpower or familial good will available for workouts when they visit or host family and friends for the holidays, the researchers and athletes I spoke with felt that the greater challenge — and opportunity — lies in finding ways to rope in the gathered hordes, who might otherwise stay inactive.
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Translated from the French by Adriana Hunter into clear and affecting prose, "Bakhita" unfolds a distinctive array of timely concerns — the subjugation of women of color, human trafficking, female solidarity, personal and institutional conflicts that knot together issues of race, class, gender and religion — and explores them through the suffering, willpower and undiminished dignity of a small frightened girl turned resolute young woman turned gentle old nun.
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While you may not be able to practice these things every single day, if you have a particular reason to exercise the most willpower possible — perhaps you're trying to tone up for a wedding, training for a marathon that is quickly approaching, or have an impending deadline for the fist draft of a proposal that demands all of your attention — implement these three tricks to bolster your self control and power through.
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Challenging assumptions about weight The new paper "challenges the automatic assumption by some that overweight people are lazy or lack willpower, and that's a positive thing, but we do know that there are a host of other factors, other than genetics, at play in determining a patient's weight, such as diet and how often they exercise," said Dr Steve Mowle, honorary treasurer at the Royal College of GPs in the UK, in an email to CNN.
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