All of the seven deadly sins are battles that we fight within our own minds. Thomas Schelling, a 2005 Nobel laureate in economics, won his Nobel Prize for game theory. He had this fascination with self control because he himself struggled with it. And he said the way to win the battle of self command is that you have to think about it as a game between your present self and your future self.
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