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The Psychology of Neverending Willpower by Tyler Tivoran of Riskology.com.

It's a busy day on campus. Students are rushing to and from classes, checking their notes hurriedly before sitting down for yet another test.

It's finals week at Stanford, and despite the demand on students' time and attention, 41 who had been paid $10, stopped in at the psychology department to take a brief survey.

What was asked?

Questions like, how many unhealthy snacks have you eaten recently?

And how often did you watch TV instead of studying?

This wasn't the first time they were asked.

These same students were monitored over the course of a whole academic term,

times when they were bored, stressed, under pressure, relaxed, etc. What the researchers were looking

for was a discernible pattern for the students who seemed to have no problem sticking to their

goals of healthy eating, studying, and other good habits.

They wanted to study people with superhuman willpower. And this wasn't the only test they ran either.

Using completely different students at different times, they conducted three more studies

to control for a number of possible variables. What they learned goes against

many decades of research, but their findings are fascinating. Turns out, students showing massive

amounts of willpower despite high levels of stress did one thing differently than those who struggled.

And what they did can be replicated. You can train yourself

to do it too and reap the rewards of limitless willpower. Want to know what it is and how to do it?

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