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E43: Nir Eyal - How to Become Indistractable

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Will Power Runs Out Like Gas and a Gastink

The idea that will power runs out like gas in a gas tank isn't so. There is one group of people carol dweck at stanford found do actually exhibit ego depletion. They do actually run out of will power like gas and a gastink. It goes back to this idea of an internal locus of control versus an external locu of control. When we believe we are powerless, when we believe there's nothing we can do, we make it so.

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