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Willpower

TagLast edit: 2 Sep 2020 6:51 UTC by Kaj_Sotala

Willpower is the ability to overcome urges to do or not some activity– to overcome temptation. Typically there is a sense of coercing oneself to do things despite inner resistance.

Willpower is of interest those who wish to increase their productivity or otherwise do more thing that they wish to be done. The question then is “how does one increase willpower?”

There is an argument that the use of willpower is undesirable. The use of willpower my constitute a form of inner violence which is in tension with inner alignment of one’s parts– a better path to productivity and wellbeing.

Related: Akrasia

Resources

Toward A Bayesian The­ory Of Willpower

Scott Alexander26 Mar 2021 2:33 UTC
103 points
28 comments6 min readLW link

Notes on Self Control

David Gross9 Nov 2020 21:27 UTC
9 points
0 comments9 min readLW link

Self-em­pa­thy as a source of “willpower”

Academian26 Oct 2010 14:20 UTC
83 points
32 comments2 min readLW link

Hero Licensing

Eliezer Yudkowsky21 Nov 2017 21:13 UTC
239 points
83 comments52 min readLW link

Does Think­ing Hard Hurt Your Brain?

Raemon29 Apr 2018 18:56 UTC
19 points
38 comments1 min readLW link

Willpower Hax #487: Ex­e­cute by Default

Eliezer Yudkowsky12 May 2009 6:46 UTC
84 points
59 comments1 min readLW link

Pain is not the unit of Effort

alkjash24 Nov 2020 20:00 UTC
547 points
90 comments5 min readLW link2 reviews
(radimentary.wordpress.com)

Spam­ming Micro-In­ten­tions to Gen­er­ate Willpower

moridinamael13 Feb 2018 20:16 UTC
44 points
23 comments3 min readLW link

Policy-Based vs Willpower-Based Intentions

Unreal28 Feb 2019 5:17 UTC
56 points
14 comments4 min readLW link

Not-Use­less Ad­vice For Deal­ing With Things You Don’t Want to Do

Rafael Harth4 Apr 2022 16:37 UTC
54 points
11 comments6 min readLW link

My Ham­mer­time Fi­nal Exam

moridinamael22 Mar 2018 18:40 UTC
16 points
2 comments2 min readLW link

Willpower De­ple­tion vs Willpower Distraction

Academian15 Jun 2014 18:29 UTC
109 points
25 comments2 min readLW link

Willpower: not a limited re­source?

Jess_Riedel25 Oct 2010 12:06 UTC
39 points
28 comments1 min readLW link

When Willpower Attacks

jimrandomh3 Oct 2009 3:36 UTC
22 points
77 comments3 min readLW link

Ayn Rand’s model of “liv­ing money”; and an up­side of burnout

AnnaSalamon16 Nov 2024 2:59 UTC
203 points
54 comments5 min readLW link

Mo­ral­ity is not about willpower

PhilGoetz8 Oct 2011 1:33 UTC
20 points
146 comments13 min readLW link

Order­ing your­self around with an app

bfinn7 Dec 2021 0:49 UTC
9 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

Books Wor­thy of Integration

Roven Skyfal20 Feb 2022 8:03 UTC
14 points
2 comments3 min readLW link

Im­prov­ing pro­duc­tivity and wellbeing

Valdes4 May 2022 12:15 UTC
10 points
1 comment11 min readLW link

My scorched-earth policy on New Year’s resolutions

PatrickDFarley29 Dec 2022 14:45 UTC
29 points
2 comments4 min readLW link

The AI Align­ment Prob­lem Has Already Been Solved(?) Once

SquirrelInHell22 Apr 2017 13:24 UTC
55 points
45 comments4 min readLW link
(squirrelinhell.blogspot.com)

Iden­ti­fy­ing Micro-fric­tion in the Con­text of the An­te­rior Mid-Cin­gu­late Cor­tex (aMCC)

Jaehyuk Lim29 Mar 2024 22:11 UTC
3 points
0 comments3 min readLW link

Chaotic Inversion

Eliezer Yudkowsky29 Nov 2008 10:57 UTC
105 points
68 comments1 min readLW link

Ap­plied Picoeconomics

Scott Alexander17 Jun 2009 16:08 UTC
61 points
85 comments4 min readLW link

Akra­sia and Shangri-La

Eliezer Yudkowsky10 Apr 2009 20:53 UTC
53 points
97 comments2 min readLW link

Study: Mak­ing de­ci­sions makes you tired

bgrah44919 Feb 2010 20:27 UTC
31 points
6 comments1 min readLW link

[Question] What is the state of the ego de­ple­tion field?

Eli Tyre9 Aug 2019 20:30 UTC
27 points
10 comments1 min readLW link

Flashes of Nondecisionmaking

lionhearted (Sebastian Marshall)27 Jan 2014 14:30 UTC
44 points
34 comments3 min readLW link

Willpower duality

Gyrodiot20 Jan 2017 9:56 UTC
10 points
8 comments2 min readLW link
(www.jrmyp.net)

Book Sum­mary: Willpower by Baumeister, Tierney

Dorikka24 May 2012 23:34 UTC
36 points
27 comments2 min readLW link

The Phys­iol­ogy of Willpower

pjeby18 Jun 2009 4:11 UTC
25 points
36 comments1 min readLW link

[Link] Dilbert au­thor tries to try

MileyCyrus12 Sep 2011 16:24 UTC
35 points
20 comments1 min readLW link