willpower

  Photo credit: John Tierney  Do we have a finite store of mental energy for exerting self-control? Most of the information from the blog comes from the August 21, 2011 Sunday Magazine. This is a very interesting article written on Decision fatigue written by John Tierney.  Decision fatigue is the newest discovery involving a phenomenon called ego depletion. Freud speculated that the self, or ego, depended on mental activities involving the transfer of energy. This article/blog discusses some background on decision fatigue, willpower and ego depletion and how that impacts dieters. Experiments have demonstrated that there is a finite store of mental energy for exerting … Continued