A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:

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An intelligent man is lost if he does not add strength of character to his intelligence.
[Un homme d’esprit est perdu, s’il ne joint pas à l’esprit l’énergie de caractère.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/62701/

#quote #quotes #quotation #character #energy #intellect #intelligence #spirit #strength #willpower

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A quotation from Meaker, Marijane:

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Whatever a man’s confidence, that’s his capacity.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/meaker-marijane/62555/

#quote #quotes #quotation #capability #confidence #limitations #self-confidence #willpower

From Tumblr:
#hope is a weapon hope is a skill
hope is a plant you can care for or kil
#hope is a discipline something you choose
hard to stop looking for easy to lose
hope isn't something to have or to take
if you can't find it it's something you make
make it from #willpower make it from #spite
learn how to weaponize #love in a fight
hope is a shield and a thing to defend
end in itself and a means to an end
https://tenaciouswritingdragon.tumblr.com/post/693705739165958144/hope-is-a-skill-hope-is-a-weapon-you-are-trained

From Tumblr:
#hope is a weapon hope is a skill
hope is a plant you can care for or kil
#hope is a discipline something you choose
hard to stop looking for easy to lose
hope isn't something to have or to take
if you can't find it it's something you make
make it from #willpower make it from #spite
learn how to weaponize #love in a fight
hope is a shield and a thing to defend
end in itself and a means to an end
https://tenaciouswritingdragon.tumblr.com/post/693705739165958144/hope-is-a-skill-hope-is-a-weapon-you-are-trained

A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

«
For when the faculty of intellect
is joined with brute force and with evil will,
no man can win against such an alliance.

[Ché dove l’argomento de la mente
s’aggiugne al mal volere e a la possa,
nessun riparo vi può far la gente.]
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/62391/

#quote #quotes #quotation #badintent #evil #force #illwill #intellect #intelligence #malice #power #strength #thought #threat #willpower

@punkonbus1701 I need to not look and be surprised when I watch the episode. #willpower

The end of #dieting: #WeightWatchers and Noom are now pushing Ozempic-like miracle #drugs over #willpower
https://fortune.com/longform/ozempic-weight-loss-industry-diet-weightwatchers-noom/

I wonder if #Twiiter last bs stunt is the last straw? If not, then people deserve the abuse. #Willpower #SundaySilence

💫🌟 "Those who truly want, can. But to have the power and the will, one must first know and, above all, dare." - Hernan Huarache Mamani 💪🔥

Determination and willingness can take us far if we have the knowledge and courage to pursue our goals. 🌱💡

We know what we want, but we must also be ready to take risks and put ourselves out there to achieve our dreams. 💫🌟

#Determination #Willpower #Knowledge #Courage #Achievement #Dare

Will Power is behaving like a fucking child. He needs to grow up and calm himself. Behaviour like this is an embarrassment and he's certainly no "legend", "icon", etc. for it (as I’ve seen him called for these outbursts yesterday). #IndyCar #WillPower

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a44235569/indycars-will-power-angry-at-romain-grosjean-scott-dixon-road-america-itself

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtmOYVousLf/?igshid=YmM0MjE2YWMzOA==

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtmiRW9AX44/?igshid=YmM0MjE2YWMzOA==

@kurtseifried
The combination of LockMeOut and Minimalist work great for me on Android, and imagine there're similar apps for iOS.
They give you the tools you need to coerce your future self to focus on the right things.

#Agency #Mindfulness #Wellness #Habits #FreeWill #WillPower

#DoomScrolling #PhilosophicalZombie #YouAreTheProduct

Mmmm. Salad.
#willpower #salad #cake #Illustration #MastoArt

Back to #objective #living there is this proposal in regarding the ability to #self-distance and #willpower,

“Self-distancing enhances willpower. If you face a temptation, you’ll be better able to exert self-control if you take a moment to think about the situation from a third-person point of view.” Jane McGonigal

Citing: Kentaro Fujita et al., “Construal Levels and Self-Control,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 90, no. 3 (2006): 351; Hedy Kober et al., “Prefrontal-Striatal Pathway Underlies Cognitive Regulation of Craving,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107, no. 33 (2010): 14811–16; and Walter Mischel and Monica L. Rodriguez, “Psychological Distance in Self-Imposed Delay of Gratification,” in Rodney R. Cocking and K. Ann Renninger, eds., The Development and Meaning of Psychological Distance (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1993)

#psychology

I am strong and am capable of connecting with others. I am worthy of respect and acceptance. I am capable of building meaningful relationships. #positivevibes #positivitypractioner #willpower #love

"Dex turned the mug over and over in their hands. “It doesn’t bother you?” Dex said. “The thought that your life might mean nothing in the end?” “That’s true for all life I’ve observed. Why would it bother me?” Mosscap’s eyes glowed brightly. “Do you not find consciousness alone to be the most exhilarating thing? Here we are, in this incomprehensibly large universe, on this one tiny moon around this one incidental planet, and in all the time this entire scenario has existed, every component has been recycled over and over and over again into infinitely incredible configurations, and sometimes, those configurations are special enough to be able to see the world around them. You and I—we’re just atoms that arranged themselves the right way, and we can understand that about ourselves. Is that not amazing?”

Chambers, Becky. A Psalm for the Wild-Built: 1 (Monk & Robot) (p. 140). Tor Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

Disclaimer, we are neoZizekians and desire to be corrected where we are mistaken.

We've been dipping back into #Zizek, which is a divergence at the moment, and critiquing his philosophical theories through the lens of #EvolutionaryPsychology.

#TheAct - The pressure of profound personal dilemmas seem to be a catalyst for one to "act." The act being an authentic and liberated achievement free of any unconscious, subconscious and conscious drives and limitations. It argues that to be able to "act" is *desirable*.

Now, ignoring the infinite existential loop/reflection for the moment, in Zizekian terms, it could be argued it isn't the desire to be able to act autonomously that we want, rather what truly drives us is the desire to desire (ala #Lacan). What isn't discussed thus far in what we've read is how we came to be beings who are driven to desire beyond having ("Having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical but often true." - #Spock, Amok Time, #StarTrek the original series).

From an Evolutionary Psychology POV, desire is secondary to survival and reproducing. But somehow it has also become an end in itself. Somehow we evolved to desire incessantly.

I think it could be argued desire stems more from reproduction (desiring the healthiest and most fertile mates - one imagines at first mating with whatever, but mating with the healthiest and most fertile became naturally selected and with that the ability to discern and desire). But for survival, one also must learn to discern foods that enhance survival and flourishing, thus desiring those foods. Power, another secondary drive also uses desire, the desire for it (#Nietzsche), and the desire for the power payoffs that increases ones status which enhances #survival and mating. But #sex and #love overwhelms us with a #desire that makes us forget everything else, love as an act of violence (Zizek, Badiou?, Spok), such that we become irrational with desire.

Have you ever experienced a desire that overwhelms every aspect of who you are (it doesn't even have to be sexual or because of love)? This is what the gods of #capitalism, and retroactively (Zizek, Lacan?) #evolution and #being have capitalized on. We'd even argue capitalism is, probably innocently, but maybe not, based on this fatal flaw of evolution. Capitalistic #consumerism feeds the desire to desire without any life giving purpose. We become like addicts, and our #addiction, consumerism, will kill us, and maybe the planet (my usual soapbox stuff).

Now what does all this have to do with the lengthy quote from #BeckyChambers must read for those seeking plots based on #mindfulness and #reflection? As we've preached elsewhere, we can't master these evolutionary drives that have run amok from the top down. Most of us do not have the #willpower. Those that do and are still slaves to the hierarchical drive for #power, are often our masters, even in this seemingly world of #democracy and #liberty. Us mortals, we do not have that kind of willpower. But we can master our drives from the bottom-up!

Mindfulness practice allows us to find that space between the drive to impulsively act, react, act out, and actually acting. Mindfulness allows us to truly "act" even without having to wait till life's pressures make it possible (One wonders if the "act" as a result of life pressures then is a true "act" compared to the mindful "act"). Mindfulness is the true power of the final revolution. Not only against those with superhuman will power, but against the gods of evolution as well. Mindfulness is the third pill (Zizek).

MossCap is a sentient robot. MossCap is a being free of everything that #psychology and modern and continental #philosophy strive to cure and resolve. He is not burdened with the evolutionary and social burdens we are. He is example par excellence standing right in front of Dex, the somewhat enlightened and evolved human. Yet Dex cannot stop desiring something. They (Dex, identifies as nonbinary) are never satisfied going from one occupation to another, one place to another, always trying to find what will satisfy their desire. Even when Mosscap spells it out, Dex, because of their human predicament cannot hear or see the answer in front of them.

Now this analysis is not a conclusive theory but it is clear where we must begin, becoming mindful of our evolutionary predicament. We are not to blame, we should not blame ourselves. Blaming is not helpful. We cannot just willfully change. It takes a cooperative, compassionate and patient practice. In the book quote, that is the role of MossCap, the cooperative, compassionate, and patient example companion. But if we could just get to where we are not driven by all our human shortcomings and learn how to be happy, or at least OK, in this existential moment, ala MossCap, then we can truly "act" free of our evolutionary, psychological, and sociological chains. We can truly revolutionize what it means to be human (Nietzsche without the human sacrifices).

The desire to desire may never be irradicated, but we believe it can be mastered and redirected towards desiring that which benefits all. In theory.

Roy Baumeister did a study in 1998 that show if participants were given a plate of cookies that they had to resist using will power, that later they had less persistence in completing a puzzle.

This was replicated a number of times in published studies and became a touch point for many authors. Hint the problem is in only successful replications got published.

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#Myths #NeuroMyths #Willpower

From time to time the hosts of some of my favourite podcasts mention Will Power/Ego Depletion, citing the work of Roy Baumeister. It may not be common knowledge but the original work fails replication. As I document in this note sharing the theory has negative consequences since people believe they have limited will power. I'm pasting my notes on the subject from my Obsidian vault. These are rough and ready, they've not even been polished by Grammarly.

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#Myths #Neuromyths #Willpower

The true meaning of willpower #shorts #willpower #opportunity #life #productivity

The #stigmatization of #depression and other mental illnesses is a significant problem in our #society. Many people do not understand that mental #illnesses are just as real and severe as physical illnesses. Instead, they may believe that mental illnesses are a sign of #weakness or a lack of #willpower, which can lead to stigmatization.

https://medium.com/@noordjonge/why-the-stigmatization-of-depression-is-a-major-problem-in-our-society-and-how-we-can-combat-it-b740909eb700