Itsehillintä ja keskittyminen riittäävät vain tietyyn pisteeseen saakka. Case in point:
”Then, the two groups are asked to do a second, seemingly unrelated task—basically a kind of logic puzzle where they have to trace out a complicated geometric pattern without raising their pencil. Unbeknownst to them, the puzzle can’t be solved. The scientists are curious how long they’ll persist at a difficult task. So the cookie-eaters try again and again, for an average of 19 minutes, before they give up. But the radish-eaters—they only last an average of 8 minutes. What gives?
The answer may surprise you: They ran out of self-control. Psychologists have discovered that self-control is an exhaustible resource. And I don’t mean self-control only in the sense of turning down cookies or alcohol, I mean a broader sense of self-supervision—any time you’re paying close attention to your actions, like when you’re having a tough conversation or trying to stay focused on a paper you’re writing. This helps to explain why, after a long hard day at the office, we’re more likely to snap at our spouses or have one drink too many—we’ve depleted our self-control.”
Why Change Is So Hard: Self-Control Is Exhaustible | Fast Company.
Olipas pitkästä aikaa aidosti kiinnostava hyveisiin liittyvä tutkimustulos. Tukee osaltaan käytännössä koeteltua tosiasiaa eli sitä, että itsehillinnän hyveen harjoittamisessa on aloitettava pienistä asioista. Jäärailoa puhkova jäämurtaja ei voi tehdä jyrkkiä käännöksiä, vaan on pikkuhiljaa hivuttauduttava kohti määränpäätä.