PsyBlog: How to Improve Your Self-Control - 0 views
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It never ceases to amaze just how different two people's views of exactly the same event can be: one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist.
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why they maintain good physical health
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Research reveals that people find it much easier to make decisions that demonstrate self-control when they are thinking about events that are distant in time, for example how much exercise they will do next week or what they will eat tomorrow (Fujita, 2008). Similarly they make much more disciplined decisions on behalf of other people than they do for themselves. People implicitly follow the maxim: do what I say, not what I do.
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avoid thinking locally and specifically and practice thinking globally, objectively and abstractly, and increased self-control should follow.
