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h3st on July 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat

> Maybe the people who could remember 7 items felt they worked hard so they deserved to be rewarded with a chocolate cake.

That would be what depleted willpower feels like, assuming you like chocolate cake and prefer it over the other option. Depleted willpower doesn't really feel like much in itself, just an increased likelihood of thinking "oh wow, chocolate cake" over "cake? doesn't fit my macros".

yeahrightdbag on July 30, 2013 | [–]

How do we know it's not an increased sense of entitlement rather than a reduction of willpower?

fauigerzigerk on July 30, 2013 | [–]

I'm sure we could all come up with tons of other similar interpretations, but what is this other than pure speculation?

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