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How to build astonishing self-control
 Many people believe willpower is fixed and finite. Yet powerful strategies exist that can help us increase it.
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Editor's Note: The participants' mindsets about willpower, it seemed, were self-fulfilling prophecies. If they believed that their willpower was easily depleted, then their ability to resist temptation and distraction quickly dissolved; but if they believed that "mental stamina fuels itself", then that is what occurred.
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