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Cookies, Adultery, Credit Card Debt — Make Your Choice
An interesting article discusses how our brains have only a limited capacity for exerting willpower/self-discipline, and it can be exhausted. Thus, if you restrain yourself from buying a flat screen TV, you’ll find it harder to stop yourself from gorging on cookies two hours later. Force yourself to sit down and finally read Moby Dick, and you may end up cheating on your wife.
