Upgrade your willpower - with your toothbrush
by Jonas Blake on Apr.07, 2009, under Mind Upgrade
Willpower is a wonderful thing, and unfortunately it is a limited commodity. But there are a few interesting ways to build up a little more willpower, including something as simple as brushing your teeth with your non-dominant had for a couple of weeks.
This article in the New Your Times from last year makes some interesting points about willpower, about how it is used and used up, and how you can build up your willpower reserves.
I find it helpful to think of willpower as a sort of credit card. When I need to do something hard, like not eating that ice cream until after dinner, I have to take out a little willpower credit to do it. Then I have to make payments in the form of eating well, resting, brushing my teeth left-handed, and so on.
But on the other hand, when I do something tough, like going to the gym no matter how hard it might be to get motivated, my willpower credit limit goes up.
So go out there and increase your credit limit!
May 7th, 2009 on 2:35 pm
Many people used different forms of toothbrushes. Did you know Indian medicine (Ayurveda) has used the neem tree (a.k.a. daatun) and its products to create toothbrushes and similar products for millennia?