self-control - Concepts
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Concepts
- Restraint Bias - The tendency to overestimate one's ability to control impulsive behaviors and resist temptation.
- Willpower as Muscle - The model that willpower can be strengthened through exercise and depleted through use.
- Akrasia - Acting against one's better judgment - knowing what's best but doing otherwise.
- Self-Regulation - The ability to control our own behavior and emotional responses, including calming ourselves when upset and adapting to changes.
- Top-Down Attention - Voluntary attention directed by goals, intentions, and conscious choice.
- Sophrosyne - The Greek virtue of moderation, self-control, and temperance.
- Urge Surfing - Riding out cravings or urges mindfully without acting on them, watching them rise and fall like waves.
- Self-Distancing - A psychological technique of stepping outside one's immediate first-person experience to view a situation from a more removed, observer-like perspective, improving emotional regulation and reasoning.
- Self-Discipline - The ability to do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.
- Batman Effect - A self-distancing technique where adopting the persona of a competent fictional character (such as Batman) improves perseverance, focus, and self-control on challenging tasks.
- Ulysses Contract - A pre-commitment device where you bind your future self to a decision made in a moment of clarity.
- Illeism - The practice of referring to oneself in the third person, used as a rhetorical device and, more recently, as an evidence-based self-distancing technique for clearer thinking and better emotional regulation.
- Present Bias - The tendency to disproportionately prefer immediate rewards over larger future rewards.
- Monk Mode - A self-imposed period of intense focus and withdrawal from distractions and socializing to make progress on a meaningful goal.
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