
Episode 132: Emotional Willpower (with David DeSteno)
Very Bad Wizards
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How to Cultivate Emotions to Keep New Year's Resolutions
Cultivating emotions like gratitude can help you keep a New Year's resolution. Emotions prevent you from engaging in the normal discounting of that future goals value, so they kind of give you a boost to self-control for whatever those goals may be. The evolutionary nature of impulsivity and why we might have selective pressures to make these kinds of decisions is very obvious.
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