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Willpower - A Bad Idea That It's Time To Get Rid Of

Cark Erik Fisher: "As a practicing addiction psychiatrist and an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry, I've become increasingly skeptical about the very concept ... More fundamentally, the common, monolithic definition of willpower distracts us from finer-grained dimensions of self-control and runs the danger of magnifying harmful myths."
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