i'm a litle bit of a realist about acrasia, in the sense that there're just a lot of battles with myself i've given up on fighting. One of the ways she talks to her students about not cheating is by saying 'it's because if you cheat, you'll be a cheater' I think it shows a certain kind of faith in your students to be like, i think this ol mod, this is how you should be motivated. This is how your motivational structure should work. Mbut, that's said, and i think that'sa, that's a worth while project and all that.
Where do our deepest personal values come from? Can we choose those values? Philosopher and author Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks about her book, Aspiration, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Callard explores the challenge of aspiration--who we are versus who we would like to become. How does aspiration work? How can we transform ourselves when we cannot know how it will feel to be transformed? Callard discusses these questions and more in this provocative episode.