34 Quotes by Roy F. Baumeister

However you define success – a happy family, good friends, a satisfying career, robust health, financial security, the freedom to pursue your passions – it tends to be accompanied by a couple of qualities.

Charles Darwin wrote in The Descent of Man, “The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.” The.

Sleep deprivation has been shown to impair the processing of glucose, which produces immediate consequences for self-control – and, over the long term, a higher risk of diabetes.

The use of violent or oppressive means to solve problems is a common feature in both instrumental and idealistic evil. There is an important difference, however, and that is the extent to which the ends justify the means.

The ones who wrote about what they had already achieved had higher satisfaction with their current tasks and projects, as compared with the ones who reflected on what they had not yet achieved. But.

Just as serious modern literature does not have plain old bad guys, sophisticated movies may also avoid such stock figures.

A first conclusion was that the actions seemed much less evil – less wrong – to the perpetrators than to the victims.

Culture is partly made out of information. There are at least two main types of this information. One is a set of shared beliefs and values. The other is shared knowledge of how to do things. Culture consists of both.

The result suggests that telling yourself ‘I can have this later’ operates in the mind a bit like having it now. It satisfies the craving to some degree – and can be even more effective at suppressing the appetite than actually eating the treat... the ones who’d postponed pleasure ate even less than the people who had earlier allowed themselves to eat the candy at will.