Why assert that everyone is equally capable of learning willpower? There are upper limits to skill acquisition, regardless of how much someone practices.
I’m not convinced willpower is highly trainable either. Your citations don’t claim that.
There’s no need to be snide. Use your willpower to resist the urge to be provocative and have a discussion in good faith.
If you actually go into those citations you’ll find they aren’t very definitive about the malleability of impulse control, especially over the long term.
“Our findings suggest that self-control is potentially malleable and the practice of inhibiting impulses may help people lose weight, eat healthier and increase their physical activity,"
And I think you’re posting studies that extoll the virtue of discipline, which is nice but it doesn’t disprove willpower has a chemical and genetic basis. Some of these are just about children studying in school and having less willpower when one is tired or stressed. Most of them only provide generic and non profound advice.
>”Also, "Doesn't disprove" is not, fundamentally, how any of this works. I'm honestly surprised you think that's a viable argument here...”
In a response to me elsewhere in this topic you said, ”the science is firmly against you” and I’ve yet to see anything in your citations that backs that up, much less “firmly”.
And you still couldn’t resist the temptation to be snide…
I’m going to appear snide to you for the remainder of this conversation because you don’t have good faith in mind. You’re in the “seeing ghosts” phase of this chat, paranoia seems to have you.
That’s demonstrated by your refusal to accept the basic truth that there’s a lot of strong evidence to suggest that willpower is a skill that can be grown and applied to weight loss.
