Tag Archives: Self-Control

Never Mind the B%llocks

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

I found myself swearing a lot this week – a sure sign I’ve been depleting my modest ego. Self-control carries a cognitive cost: the more you soak up the more you get p155ed off. There were good bits, but also … Continue reading →

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Laughter

Posted on April 10, 2011 by

As I wrote the other week, I now know the cognitive cost of self-control is ‘ego depletion’. In Wired’s less technical terms, acts of self-control ‘piss the ego off’ and attract us to angry thoughts, words and deeds. ‘Ego depletion’ … Continue reading →

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Self Control

Posted on March 24, 2011 by

Interesting to read in Wired that exercising self-control carries a cognitive penalty which makes you more likely to develop a ‘bad mood’ and lose it with someone else. As Wired has it: In a series of clever studies, the Northwestern … Continue reading →

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