Do You Have Will Power?

There's beeno the work that shows that fighting your desires with will power is not just difficult, but it's actually stressful. When you're trying to come back in and exert executive control, which is a fancy word we psychologists use for trying to overrule a kind of our more intuitive responses,. Your brain feels like you'r you' yu're in a battle. That results in stress that there's great work by psychologist gregory miller at northwestern. He was trying to work with kids from disadvantage backgrounds, showing them, teaching them executive control strategies an overtime. Yes, those strategies worked, but the stress level that those children were n adolescencs were under, began...