Michael Inzlicht, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto and the principal investigator at the Toronto Laboratory for Social Neuroscience, believes willpower is not a finite resource but instead acts like an emotion. Just as we don’t “run out” of joy or anger, willpower ebbs and flows based on what’s happening to us and a constellation of other factors determining how we feel.

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• willpower
• 5. Psychology
• The biopsychosocial model explains that biological, psychological, and social factors explain one’s health (and happiness).
• discipline
• behavior
• emotion
• 3. Learned Happiness: Knowing to Doing & Theory to Practice
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