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Ryan Holiday on Discipline Is Destiny

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Is There a Fixed Amount of Self Control?

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There has been some scientific research on this and it's both unclear and then I think it's from a replication standpoint they've struggled. They would do some experiments where they would like give someone a tough math problem, an impossible math problem, and see how long it would take them to give up on the math problem. So I think that that matches the sort of common sense or the gut instinct which is that yeah, that we have a finite amount of discipline.

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