when your levels of willpower drop below a certain conducted in 1998 by a famous psychologist Roy Baumeister he took hungry he had the of warm cookies and a bowl of radishes.
the first group was themselves to whatever they wanted,the second group was not allowed to eat any cookies and the third group was the control group they sat another room where they were asked to work on some empty room and had no food also lasted about 20 minutes.
now here's the minutes now what does muscle is actually true .the more you use this mental muscle the less mental gonna introduce you to a very important concept that will change the way you look at your life and
especially your habits a concept called willpower . we're gonna cover whether or not willpower is even real. if so how does it work and finally what happens?
threshold a study was three groups of people and had them fast so that they were First two groups sit down instructed to help In an empty room with no food in front of them after a while the three groups were taken to
puzzles they were told that .this was a test of reasoning but these puzzles were actually unsolvable .what the researchers were looking at was how long these groups of people which tried.
to solve these puzzles before giving up the room that was allowed to eat cookies
interesting part the group that had to resist eating the cookies only lasted eight.this study show us first of all it shows us that willpower is very real. the group certain amount of willpower every single day and by doing mentally strangest tasks the amount we have decreases and just like a battery there are ways to recharge your levels of willpower but if the amount of willpower you have drops
below a certain threshold if your battery levels get interesting low.
things start to happen the official term for this state is who had their levels of willpower purposely lowered they found. that when you're in a state of ego alarm system conversations like business meetings or even dates. they also found that pain is also literally felt more pain .
when they stuck their hand in a were presented with a gift-wrapped box they felt a huge increase on average in desire to open it number two bad habits that have been ingrained in your mind like your smoking habit or your drinking problem become this is because these habits are so ingrained in your brain that they don't use up any willpower but actively trying to resist them excuses not to go to the months it's most likely because you're in a state of ego during exam times students would smoke more exercise willpower for all the other noticed that you have a harder time sticking to good habits
called ego depletion scientists have conducted active brain scans on subjects
depletion your brain literally fires slower on top of that the in your brain for errors becomes weaker this means that you will have a harder time spotting errors in your work so you're more likely to do worse on tests and more likely to say the wrong things during important people in the state of Eagle depletion have a harder time controlling their
reactions this means that you're more likely to become emotional to get angry or to cry over
something small not only that but your ability to withstand drastically decreased studies found that people in a state of Eagle depletion
bucket of water and most importantly when you're in a state of ego depletion .it becomes extremely hard for you to make the right decisions this is because of two reasons number .
one when you're in a state of ego depletion you become more impulsive and temptations feel a lot stronger a study found that when Eagle depleted subjects extremely hard to resist does so if you've ever found yourself cheating on your diet or coming up with gym or even having extremely strong cravings for a drink after quitting for depletion this is
extremely important information because it shows us just how much of our habits are affected by our levels of willpower for example a study found that less eat more and healthy and even have worse hygiene because all of their willpower is focused on
studying for their exams this means they have less stuff .
here's another example if you've ever been sick before you've probably when you're sick your body focuses most of its energy this is because fighting the disease on fighting the disease it's actually been proven by scientists that your levels of willpower are significantly lower when you're sick and because of this your ability to make the right decisions go out the window and that's why we feel so unmotivated to stick to our good habits when we're feeling ill .
so now that we know willpower is real and we know .

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