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#456 - David Robson - The Psychological Power Of Expectations
Modern Wisdom
The Red Pill of Will Power Degradation?
Ego depletion seems to be present only in the people that know about ego depletion. There's no kind of biological cause for egodepletion. Their will power did indeed crease, increase. The mord they practised it. Said their focus was much better on a second task compared to the first task because i'd had time to warm up. And so that was really strong evidence that, like yet, it's totally due to our underlying beliefs about what's going to happen to the brain. It's purely an expectation effect. Once you get into the kind of momentum going, it can continue.
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