AMA | October 2024

3167.228 - 3190.175 Sean Carroll

But willpower is the ability to avoid doing something that in the moment you are kind of tempted to do. Stay in bed, eat the ice cream, whatever it is. Why? Because you think that there is a payoff down the road, right? That there is a future reward that you're going to get from this. And I do think it's fascinating how the human mind carries out this kind of calculation, right?