Limiting Your Potential #shorts

After a long day at work, do you tell yourself that you feel exhausted and can't possibly go to the gym or social event like you planned? Then you're subscribing to a limiting belief with little scientific basis. You're not alone in that. One of the most pervasive bits of folk psychology is the belief that self control is limited, that we only have so much willpower available to us and are liable to run out if we overexert ourselves. It's not a finite resource, but instead acts like an emotion, ebbing and flowing in response to what's happening to us and how we feel. That view helps us see a lack of motivation as a temporary reaction to a difficult task, rather than as a total depletion of our daily dose of willpower.