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Except ego depletion hasn't stood up as well as a scientific concept after more rigorous replications. Indeed, there's research that shows that the way you think of your own willpower affects its depletion. If you believe that you're "energized" by doing hard things, you tend not to get depleted after exerting willpower. If there really were a physical store of energy, then your beliefs about it shouldn't affect it. Yet they do.
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Wake up at 5am. Read a book a week. Exercise every day-but make sure it's high-intensity or it doesn't count. Journal. Meditate. Volunteer.
Living well sounds exhausting. Maybe it's just easier to flop down and watch Netflix?
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Is it simply the case that your energy is limited, and if you put in effort in one area of your life, you're necessarily sucking it away from another area?
This is a common view, but the research shows it's actually a lot more complicated. Roy Baumeister helped develop the view of
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