<div dir="auto">Willpower is the ability to physically execute plans.   That's a simple one</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 9, 2022, 5:34 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Dave, that's not bad.  It does contain words that could be turned into experimental manipulations.  But it still lacks the measurement function.  What is short term?  Long term?  How will we define gratification?  All problems of measurement.   bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 2:46 PM Dave S via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 7:29 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif">and until someone comes up with a noncircular definition of willpower (which would not make me wrong) I rest my case. </font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Willpower is the ability to resist short-term gratification in pursuit of long-term goals or objectives." <a href="https://www.apa.org/topics/personality/willpower" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.apa.org/topics/personality/willpower</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>-Dave</div></div></div>
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