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How Willpower Works: Decision Fatigue and How to Avoid Bad Choices - 0 views

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  • What the researchers found was that at the beginning of the day, a judge was likely to give a favorable ruling about 65 percent of the time. However, as the morning wore on and the judge became drained from making more and more decisions, the likelihood of a criminal getting a favorable ruling steadily dropped to zero.
  • It didn’t matter what the crime was — murder, rape, theft, embezzlement — a criminal was much more likely to get a favorable response if their parole hearing was scheduled in the morning (or immediately after a food break) than if it was scheduled near the end of a long session.
  • As it turns out, your willpower is like a muscle. And similar to the muscles in your body, willpower can get fatigued when you use it over and over again. Every time you make a decision, it’s like doing another rep in the gym. And similar to how your muscles get tired at the end of a workout, the strength of your willpower fades as you make more decisions.
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  • decision fatigue.
  • If you have a particularly decision-heavy day at work, then you come home feeling drained. You might want to go to the gym and workout, but your brain would rather default to the easy decision: sit on the couch. That’s decision fatigue.
  • 1. Plan daily decisions the night before.
  • When you want to get better decisions from your mind, put better food into your body
  • Start your day by working on the most important thing in your life.
  • 3. Stop making decisions. Start making commitments.
  • 4. If you have to make good decisions later in the day, then eat something first.
  • 2. Do the most important thing first.
  • 5. Simplify.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 02 Mar 16
     
    James Clear on how to use willpower and decisions more effectively
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7 EFFECTIVE WAYS TO BUILD WILLPOWER - Project Man Beyond - 0 views

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shared by Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 01 Mar 16 - No Cached
  • Remember those moments when you just don’t feel like doing a task, but you know you have to?
  • Contrary to many Vince Lombardi-type motivations, willpower is more like an energy that can be depleted. Willpower is a finite resource. It works in cycles; it is something that you build on and know when to maximize.
  • As psychologist Roy Baumeister and science writer John Tierney pointed out in their Willpower book, it works a lot like a muscle. Like a muscle, it can get tired and need recovery.
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  • It also needs to be nourished. It is affected by a lot of factors such as stress, physical health, and nutrition. In other words, your “spirit can be willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised.”
  • 1.) DEFINING WHAT MOTIVATES YOU
  • f there is no underlying passion and serious motivation behind a goal, temptations can easily power their way against you.
  • .) DIVIDING YOUR GOALS INTO SMALLER PIECES
  • Starting is actually the secret to accomplishing a lot of things. Just by starting, somehow you are compelled to continue on. 
  • 3.) GRADUAL PROGRESSION & ACCUMULATING POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
  • 4.) YOUR HEALTH MATTERS
  • 5.) WORK ON YOUR EMOTIONAL BLOCKAGES
  • Find that breakthrough and learn why, at times, you may feel like it doesn’t matter.
  • 6.) ACKNOWLEDGING YOUR LIMITATIONS
  • 7.) MEDITATION
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 01 Mar 16
     
    blog post from ProjectManBeyond, Self-Evolution for Men, posted 2/26/2016 with excellent ideas for growing willpower to do the things important to you. each essay offers a read time, ex. 7 minutes. By Mac Rivera, founder of a site for advanced self-development
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Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 02 Mar 16
     
    tremendous article by John Tierney on research relating to decision fatigue, August 17, 2011, and willpower.
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How To Really Block Time-Wasting Websites - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 16 Dec 13
     
    Technical solutions to block time-wasters online by Justin Pot, March 16, 2013. Probably not that useful for those who need to develop new routines and willpower.
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'Binge Learning' is Online Education's Killer App | The Ümlaut - 0 views

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  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 27 May 14
     
    blog by Eli Dourado on March 6, 2013 on binge learning. Excerpt: A combination of technology (DVRs) and market service providers (Netflix, Hulu, On Demand) have transformed how and when and where we watch "television." I suspect that students want the same things. Technology and market forces appear to be reshaping how and when and where we learn. Perhaps we education providers should pay attention. But the kind of bingeing that people might like to do with online courses is entirely different. Most people who sign up for an online class at Udacity or Marginal Revolution University want to take the class for its own sake, not as a requirement for some broader credential. The point is not to learn and forget-it is to indulge an interest. This seems like a more natural way to learn than traditional educational structures can offer: develop an interest and mercilessly indulge it until another interest supersedes it. It is a method that conserves the mental energy associated with willpower, leaving more of the brain's resources to focus on the material itself. Since it relies on the student actually being interested in the class, it is hard to fit into a physical schooling environment, where classes have to begin on a schedule, go slow enough for everyone to keep up, and run in parallel with other classes. Online education also saves the resources associated with context switching. Humans are notoriously bad multitaskers. Each time a high school student has to change classes, she has to quickly stifle the thoughts and questions raised in previous classes to focus on the current class. She has to expend mental resources remembering where the previous session of the current class left off. And when she returns to the class that stimulated the thoughts that had to be stifled, she may not recall them. Far better to focus on-or even to binge on-one subject until she is at a good stopping point.
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How we form habits, change existing ones -- ScienceDaily - 0 views

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  • When our intentional mind is engaged, we act in ways that meet an outcome we desire and typically we're aware of our intentions. Intentions can change quickly because we can make conscious decisions about what we want to do in the future that may be different from the past. However, when the habitual mind is engaged, our habits function largely outside of awareness. We can't easily articulate how we do our habits or why we do them, and they change slowly through repeated experience. "Our minds don't always integrate in the best way possible. Even when you know the right answer, you can't make yourself change the habitual behavior," Wood says.
  • Forty percent of the time we're not thinking about what we're doing," Wood interjects. "Habits allow us to focus on other things…Willpower is a limited resource, and when it runs out you fall back on habits."
  • The second principle is remembering that repetition is key.
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  • there are three main principles to consider when effectively changing habitual behavior. First, you must derail existing habits and create a window of opportunity to act on new intentions.
  • Wendy Wood explains in her session at the American Psychological Association's 122nd Annual Convention.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 02 Mar 16
     
    From Science Daily on how we may form new habits, 8/8/2014, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
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8 Scientifically-Proven Ways to Streamline Decision-making - 0 views

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  • Proven Strategies for Better Decision-Making
  • 8.) Avoid Distractions
  • 7.) Take Naps
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  • 6.) Limit Your Choices
  • 5.) Create To-do Lists Based on Specific Goals
  • 3.) Learn To Let Go
  • .) Simple Rituals
  • 1.) Make All These a Habit!
  • The process of creating habits involves building neural pathways in your brain – and this takes a heck of a lot of time. How much time? In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell says 10,000 hours. Another author says it takes approximately 45 days.
  • Doris Reeves-Lipscomb on 02 Mar 16
     
    very good article by Arthur Piccio on making better and more decisions at YouTheEntrepreneur
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