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So you are sitting there for 10 minutes. 10 minutes later, the experimenter comes in, takes you to the real experiment.

Sitting down, you take the exact same test. The exact same puzzle. And once again, how long will you persevere before giving up?

Think about for yourself for a second. Who do you think persevered more? The chocolate chip cookies group? Or the beetroots group? Think for yourself for a second. By the way, I guessed wrong when I answered this question. OK.

Significantly more perseverance, significantly more, wasn't close, the group that had the beetroots persevered a lot more. Why? I wouldn't understand.

The mechanism and he did some more experiment to explain the mechanism. It's because the chocolate chip cookie group had used self-discipline not to touch, though they really wanted to touch it.

But they couldn't. So they used their quota of self-discipline. And when they went into the quote\unquote real experiment, what happened was that they had little or no self-discipline left

And that, that maze, that experiment, that test required a lot of self-discipline. The point of this study is we all have limited amount of self-discipline.

And the question is what do we used it on.