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[video] Kelly McGonigal on willpower
letahl13y00

For those who watched the video or are familiar with her work, did it strike you as strange that both of these things are correlated with increased willpower in the future: (1) forgiving yourself and not being critical of failures of willpower and (2) being pessimistic and envisioning failures for the future? Just trying to work out in my mind why they would both be effective.

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[video] Kelly McGonigal on willpower
letahl13y20

I hope you realize the irony in imagining yourself failing at the imagining yourself failing exercise.

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