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Roy Baumeister || Willpower, Violence, and Free Will

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The Limits of Ego Depletion

There's so much evidence now that if you want to take it seriously you'd have to be able to account for things. Some processes are fairly far removed from the actual physiological expenditure of energy. We evolved under different conditions. There were no supermarkets in evolutionary past. And moreover, the basic energy that goes into self-control and low parts of it is the same energy that powers the brain and the kidney.

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