Willpower: Self-control, decision fatigue, and energy
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- Опубликовано: 28 июл 2024
- One of the world's most esteemed psychologists, Roy F Baumeister visits the RSA to explain why willpower and self-control is one of the most important aspects of individual and societal wellbeing.
Listen to the podcast of the full event including audience Q&A: www.thersa.org/events/audio-an...
"Advertising knows that self-control is the enemy to them."
I found it very interesting the study that made a connection with stress-fatigue & willpower. But it also makes a lot of sense & it seems to shine light on how many controlling people operate. Thank you so much for posting !
@ihnlChiv Hi the full event was an hour long, the podcast is the full hour including the audience Q&A. You can find it on our website: thersa.org/events/audio-and-past-events/2012/willpower-self-control,-decision-fatigue,-and-energy
An excellent video...I have not read any of Roy Baumeister's writings, but I plan to do so after watching this thoughtful lecture. I think this video would be a good candidate to use in a RSA animation video.
thanks roy for your wisdom regarding energy will power & self control which i need asap
I bought the book and just love it!!! Thanks
With the chocolate/radishes experiment, wouldn't that tie in with what he was saying later about low glucose making it harder? That is, the chocolate eaters did better on the puzzle because they consumed a more energetic food.
How the hell did I get a 2 minute unskipable ad for this video.
got a lot out of this talk, really useful stuff.
Super useful ideas here. Thanks for sharing!
Anyway, I just graduated as a psych major (double majored w/ biology). And I was in an independent honors research class with 17 students. 2 doing behavioral experiments on animals and 15 doing cognitive experiments (some very similar to Baumeister's) on humans. Both behavioral experiments came out with sig results and none of the cog did. For every 1 human psych exp that is published, there are 19 that are brushed under the carpet (p
Thank you very much for this.
A small insight .. there is difference is self control and controlling the desire. Desires set a loose is lack of self control. If you think will power will help in self control then it is limited but on the other hand, if you think will power can curb your desire for a finite time(until it is the right time) it will be available as much as you can use it. Time plays an important role here.
This study was cited in Pinker's new book.
practicing Mindfulness Meditation would be suitable. if you are trying to overcome an anxiety disorder, i would recommend using the link twice each day but if you are looking not to avoid the negative but to seek to flourish, i would recommend Mindfulness Meditation. Both are highly beneficial but based on the same principle
@wandulage same. i go to college on the strand and walk past it and never went in to sign myself up
@ichibanski8 That's not what he was arguing. He argued that in those times production was too low to meet demand, so that production levels determined the amount of goods sold. Now, with modern manufacturing, production is capable of far surpassing demand, so that now demand determines the amount sold. Prior to this, advertising was superfluous; it wasn't that they necessarily had better self-control, but that they had less prodding to make a purchase, and certainly less means to do so.
@7:00 This sort of feels like there's a physio-chemical implication, which case what are the concoctions of nutrients that deal with attention and 'will power' allocation?
Thumbs up, I just resisted ordering a calzone, had a guava smoothie instead. Tasty, but not as tasty as a calzone. Willpower as a muscle, and it will get stronger with use. That is good news, such good news. It explains why I'm so lazy in the afternoons, lazy and tired at the same time. Sounds like glucose issues to me. Let's see how the guava smoothie works out (it's spiked with coffee)
Can you please post a new link?
I'm very interested in attention span training. Can you pls tell me what to look up or where? Thanks!
Is it accurate to say that people who ate radishes depleted their power of will power? Couldn't this be due to other factors post 3 hrs of not eating? ie. those who ate cookies instead would have consumed a relatively large dose of sugar. Wouldn't this aid the energy required to solve the puzzle?
when you say full podcast available. how much longer is the full podcast?
Majority of religious people are tend to have more will power than non believers but the advantage is because of the meditation and power of thought in constantly doing good deeds. SO to practice meditation and repeating progressive thoughts one can reach and go beyond in morals than believers.
@danndan6 good point, but lets say you have social anxiety. If you always switching attention from the people how can you find a way to do everyday things? And if you switch attention to the people(social life) that could be quite tempting. Without coping skills it would be more terrifying, resulting more anxiety.
Switching attention is a good way to deal with anxiety and thats what some neurotics do. Thats why someone with social anxiety will pretend he's with friends or alone when with people
This study was sited in Steven Pinker's new book--which I just finished today and can highly recommend! (Better Angels of our Nature)
I'm not so sure about this, the results are also consistent with stress, clearly rejecting something that you desire is stressful, you're probably less likely to be able to resist something when you are stressed. Also, making decisions is stressful.
The most important thing I took from this is that:
When my Sweetie has PMS, give her sweets.
@danndan6 ok, i misinterpreted sry.
I agree with you on that, but only if that someone won't be miserable after failures/disappointments/etc. he will probably see when dealing with anxiety. Even distractions are good if you don't have anything else.
@DuggyDugunder We had the brilliant Steven Pinker here last year, in case you are interested you can watch the video of his talk: ruclips.net/video/GgNsmW_bAKI/видео.html
@EoNista distraction is a form of avoidance which only makes it worse. the ONLY way to overcome a fear is to ultimately face it. there are lots of things that help and aid while you face the fear but taking your mind elsewhere doesnt help.
mindfulness meditation is a great way to exert self control and train it. also, just as a thought.... more so than self control in the face of temptation, there should be a recognition on the value of attention control which i guess is a subsect of this. why? all neurotic issues from addiction to anxiety and jealousy are revolving around attention. you cant be tempted to eat teh cake if your mind can easily switch its attention elsewhere. so maybe training attention is just as good of a method
To the last point on advertising: there's a reprehensible UK tv ad campaign by Haribo that explains the one sweet now or two in five minutes experiment and then claims all kids succumbed to their sweets as they are too good!
Does he mean "self-esteem" or "imbalanced ego"?
Awesome
4:20 This experiment was thrown! Sugar helps increase concentration. The cake was an energy boost.
+Helicopter Hat Hacker As far as I know, in this experiment they have a control group, the members of which don't get any kind of of food.
+bluebird It doesn't matter. This ego depletion experiment is ruined because if you watched the video and understand how sugar works, you can see it's a fix.
Ofcourse its all related to proper eating! People so underestimate food and what we put in our bodies! Its everything along with proper rest and fluid intake!! I live this....you cant be a bodybuilder without the right fuel driving your body! :)
fate sent me to this one, good stuff
Capitalist declared psywar on society's self-awareness and self-control thru Ed Bernay, Freud's grandson. See B.B.C.'s "the century of self" on topdocumentary films. Or a shorter version: "Rule from the Shadows - The Psychology of Power".
interesting impication for dieting--self control depletes glucose, which in turn will make one hungry
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The bad thing about long video introductions is that when you're watching a few videos in a row, it begins to get tedious.
Just wanted to throw that out there.
@EoNista no, when i said about attention, i meant the exact opposite of trying to distract yourself. the route of anxiety is essentially attentional. as someone who has overcome OCD and SAD, and who is now studying a type of psychotherapy, i can assure you that training your attention span is at the route of overcoming anxiety disorders.
Make more RSA Animate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's a different "glucose."
So according to this great lecture I would say religious people are more likely to be happy than atheist because religion teaches self control, and self control increases your willpower strength. For example in Islam, muslims have to pray 5 times a day at a fixed time for every prayer, they have to fast for the whole month in Ramadan and there are lot of other things. So think about it, God knows human nature, He knows how we should live our life to be happy, maybe that is why he have do and donts.
Religion ensures you will fail at exerting the level of self-control it demands, in order to guilt trip followers.
Religion encourages the use of willpower thus increasing it over time as this lecture clearly supports.
God is perfect, the standard is perfection. Yes! We will fail and are therefore in need of a savior, hence Jesus Christ. However, to strive to live a life of perfection is flawed without grace and a religion without grace is a flawed religion. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God." Ephesians 2:8
Having said all of that, religion, although well intended, is an organization made up of people (who are not perfect and are flawed). God saved us... not people, not religion (although it may be used to bring people to God). Only by grace through faith in Christ were we saved. "For God so loved the world He gave his only son (Jesus Christ) that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16.
Lastly, guilt is condemnation or manipulation which is NOT of God, where as conviction leads us to true repentance.
Atheists leaders were often mass murderers from Stalin to Mao to Kim Jon Un.
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Making someone else pay for your mistakes, however imaginary, is questionable, moral-wise. What's more, the christian god supposedly sacrificed himself to himself to protect us from himself because of a situation created by himself, and we're supposed to be grateful ? How about leaving us alone ? Oh, wait, he's so insecure he wants to be worshipped, so much for perfection, but he supposedly created in his image, but perhaps that's all because his whole operation works on prayers (and certainly not on the money of believers, of course), so much for omnipotence.
tangerinemuffins Oh, do you mind giving us the chapter and verse of the atheistic bible saying "Thou shalt not kill" ? More seriously, your argument is so old and bad you probably made not effort at all to look for any counters, why am I not surprised ? What about the fact all the other dictators throughout history were religious (ever heard of Hitler ? Doesn't "Gott mit uns" ring a bell ?) or at least claimed to be to manipulate the masses, or the fact that a cult of a personnality still is a cult, or that atheism, being a lack of belief, bears no intrinsic moral value ? Or that religion, especially state religion, by promoting blind obedience, enables tyrants ?
I love the Lord.
"Oh, illusory superiority. Now, isn't that interesting. Yes, mankind is sooo complicated." That's probably what you sounded like when you learned about that in your Social Psych undergrad class that teaches you that true science is a subjective term.
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Correlation does not equal causation. Although I believe Mr. Baumeister has a lot of true, insightful things to say, some of the studies and experiments he describes seem suspiciously flawed in their assumptions.
brilliant man
why did such an important topic get so rushed?
He has controlled for all that by performing many many follow-up experiments in which different variables were manipulated so as to pinpoint the cause in willpower depletion.
That's a different glucose.
I remember sprite's slogan trust your instinct, obey your thirst. 😑
The greatest enemy of advertising is our willpower. Hear hear...
I only learnt: I hate powerpoint and boring slides!
Why are they in a grotto
what that means? in order to conserve willpower you have to please yourself about everything? like not resisting any temptations? 😈 lol
Is this the architect of the matrix guy ?
why does the camera keep switching to that creepy looking guy?
glucose is glucose. C6H12O6. But that wasn't even his point.
Scientific proof of PMS!!!
i get that, but the whole lecture sounds a little accusatory. instead of taking on the marketing issue, he's talking about how people should learn to ignore the desires constantly manufactured by a huge machine, AND on top of that, the whole u.s. economy is based on cyclical consumption and infinite growth paradigm. so, unless this professor targets the actual problem - the economic system, he's basically yelling at its victims who's livelihood is currently tied to the fulfilling of said desires
The Roy F. Baumeister?! How appropriate for this current zeitgeist because apart from his current book 'Willpower', I suggest MEN read his other book "Is There Anything Good About Men?: How Cultures Flourish by Exploiting Men"...arguably, infinitely more topical, you'll also find out in that book how the musings of radical feminists are possibly the reason why this man looks a little bit tired.
Touche.
But why waste willpower on something so... useless and changeable?
so...malnutrition, lack of nutritional foods to create glucose results in lower self control-
no shit
Advertisers know that your value system is the enemy not ur self control so thats what they attack and try to change. I have to disagree with the notion that the good ol days were great because people didnt act out on their desires
@twistedbass15 For god sakes, just lay off already.
im stoned watching this.... he reminds me of Seymour from the simpsons uhh uhhh uhh lol
lol guess you need some glucose
It would of been interesting if one of the test applicants was bulimic or anorexic.