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We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Baumeister's big idea, now borne out by hundreds of ingenious experiments in his and other social psychologists' labs, is that willpower — the force by which we control and manage our thoughts, impulses and emotions and which helps us persevere with difficult tasks — is actually rather like a kind of moral muscle.
Like a muscle, it can get tired if you overuse it. Exercising willpower, but also making decisions and choices and taking initiatives, all seem to draw on the same well of energy, Baumeister has established. In experiments, he found that straight after accomplishing a task that required them to restrain their impulses saying no to chocolate biscuits, suppressing their emotions while watching a three-tissue weepy , students were far more likely to underperform at other willpower-related jobs such as squeezing a handgrip or solving a difficult puzzle.
Having a cold tends to reduce your self-control, and PMS does the same. We get cranky and irritable, but it's not that we have nastier impulses — it's that our usual restraints have become weakened.
So best avoid trying to do too many things involving mental effort at the same time, or if you're ill. As with a muscle, though, you can train your willpower. Even small, day-to-day acts of willpower such as maintaining good posture, speaking in complete sentences or using a computer mouse with the other hand, can pay off by reinforcing longer-term self-control in completely unrelated activities, Baumeister has found.
People previously told to sit or stand up straight whenever they remembered later performed much better in lab willpower tests. The final way in which willpower resembles a mental "muscle" is that when its strength is depleted, it can be revived with glucose.
Getting a decent night's sleep and eating well — good, slow-burning fuel — is important in the exercise of willpower, but in times of dire need a quick shot of sugar can, according to Baumeister's lab tests, make all the difference. This is, of course, something of a problem for crash dieters, who basically need to eat in order to summon up the willpower not to eat. Indeed some very strong impulses, such as the behaviour often exhibited by males in possession of an erect penis, can sometimes prove completely resistant to willpower, even after the ingestion of a can of Coca-Cola.
Baumeister's top willpower tips: Build up your self-control by exercising it regularly in small ways. Learn to recognise signs that your willpower may be waning. Don't crash diet. It helps to look at the big picture and to fully embrace the growth mindset.
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