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    Self-control strategies: Triggers, chutes, ladders and other ways to scaffold our success

    iProcrastinate Podcast · Jan 22, 2011 · 1 h 15 min
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    In this fascinating interview, Dr. Joel Anderson (Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences ) explains the notion of distributed willpower. Successful people arrange thier lives in such a way as to economize on willpower and to scaffold their willpower strategicially with environmental support. Willpower is not…

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