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Grateful Expectations

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

The Limits of Will Power

Dave: We tend to use will power when we're trying to pursue a long term goal. He says if you're always using will power to tamp down desires for what you want in the moment, then your body is in kind of a perpetual state of stress. Dave: The other problem is, oftentimes we choose not to invoke will power in the first place because we're really good as humans at engaging in inrationalization.

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