How Willpower Works

Stuff You Should Know

• Episode: How Willpower Works
• Website: Stuff You Should Know
• Feed URL: http://www.howstuffworks.com/podcasts/stuff-you-should-know.rss
• Duration: 00:34:47
• Published: 2013-02-07 21:41

You use it to overcome your lower self (which wants you to eat cake until your vision blurs) in pursuit of the goals of your higher self (which wants you to avoid diabetes). Yet it was only the 1990s that researchers have begun to understand willpower.