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CM 207: David Robson on How Our Expectations Shape Us

Curious Minds at Work

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Will Power Is Like a Limited Resource

Our culture emphasizes the energy drain around will power, how using a lot of mental energy reduces will power. What i found fastenating is your in your book, is that we may actually be buying into this more than we should. How? There's been a lot of research that seemed to show that a will power is like a very limited resource. But much like the research on stress, this hadn't really questioned whether our expectations for shaping that response were too high.

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