Patience is a virtue, but it’s also a brain state—what’s going on inside your head when you decide to play the waiting game?
Tag: <span>willpower</span>
You have to pay attention to your goals if you ever want to achieve them. But while you pay for this attention with your time, there is something else you sacrifice when you decide to…
Ulysses is said to have tied himself to the flagpole of his ship, so that as he sailed past the sirens and heard their beautiful voices, he wouldn’t be able to steer the ship into…
To make a better tomorrow, sometimes we have to put up with a not-so-nice today. Long-term goals mean rejecting many of the things that tempt us in the moment. We don’t want to be a…
When it comes to dieting we often choose to rely on our self-control–a notoriously fragile construct. It’s not easy walking past processed foods in the supermarket without picking up a snack. It’s not easy mustering…
“The ant in Aesop’s fable instinctively knows what it has to do to prepare for the future, and when summer comes it drags off the food it will need for the winter. But we don’t…