"Wish you'd have told me that 20 tattoos and several piercings ago."
Posted on 07/04/2013 9:56:19 PM PDT by neverdem
Improbably enough, people who are better able to resist impulses report being more satisfied with their lives.
PROBLEM: "Among humankind's most valuable assets" is self-control, according to Wilhelm Hofmann and his team of researchers at the University of Chicago. They define it as "the ability to override or change one's inner responses" and to refrain from acting on impulses. As an immediate consequence of leading lives of constant self-denial, it would seem that people with a lot of self-control aren't likely to derive a lot of pleasure from life, although in the long run they might benefit from the satisfaction of being better able to realize long-term goals. They don't get to enjoy the cronuts, but they get to be thin, healthy, and otherwise better than the rest of us.
METHODOLOGY: To start, 414 adults completed an online survey, in which they rated their self-control by indicating how much they agreed with 14 statements (such as, "I do certain things that are bad for me, if they are fun"). The participants also reported their current emotional state as well as their overall life satisfaction. Holfmann's team then turned to data from a study in which 205 adults were given smartphones and prompted to report their emotions at random moments throughout the week. At the same time, they were also asked to report whether they were experiencing any desires, and if so, how hard they tried to resist them, and whether they ultimately ended up acting on them.
RESULTS: The more self-control people reported having, the more satisfied they reported being with their lives. And contrary to what the researchers were expecting, people with more self-control were also more likely to be happy in the short-term. In fact, when they further analyzed the data, they found that such people's increased happiness to...
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Those people used to be called Puritans.
Improbably enough, people who are better able to resist impulses report being more satisfied with their lives.
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“Improbably enough”?
Not improbable at all.
Who paid for this redundant study?
I have more self control than anyone I’ve ever known or heard of. But I’m not happy. Stupid study.
Not Alec Baldwin [ex-Twitter user].
I was going to post a comment, but I do have more self control, so never mind...
But you did post a comment.
well they stop themselves from doing impulsive stupid things others don’t. saves them from crimes and jail, and even destroying business and personal relationships over things that aren’t worth it.
if you didn’t have self control you could easily today wind up in jail, or in court and being sued. less freedom less money, more stress, you’d be far, far less happy than you are now.
explains the black community and their doj crime stats.
“Who paid for this redundant study?”
The Bud Light Institute
"Wish you'd have told me that 20 tattoos and several piercings ago."
“Pins and needles, needles and pins. A happy man is a man who grins’’.
This is what happens when cousins marry.
Go into the bathroom, look in the mirror.
Agree, where are these studies and writers coming from? Why would people without self-control be considered happy?
Addicts
Over eaters
Over spenders
Etcetcetc?
It’s a remarkable comment on our culture to think that lack of control might make you happy. But guess what? ADVERTISERS promote that all the time in very cute and compelling ways: “Bet you can’t eat just one.”
Nektar 1972 recorded live in studio to two track, no dubs, just raw improv
Have a plan, Adapt, Improvise, Overcome
OMG. What must life be like during cold & flu season?
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