Comment by letahl on [video] Kelly McGonigal on willpower · 2012-06-19T14:48:33.084Z · LW · GW

For those who watched the video or are familiar with her work, did it strike you as strange that both of these things are correlated with increased willpower in the future: (1) forgiving yourself and not being critical of failures of willpower and (2) being pessimistic and envisioning failures for the future? Just trying to work out in my mind why they would both be effective.

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Comment by letahl on [video] Kelly McGonigal on willpower · 2012-06-19T14:41:46.188Z · LW · GW

I hope you realize the irony in imagining yourself failing at the imagining yourself failing exercise.