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How much of it do you think you have?

There seems to be at least two types--willpower for action, and willpower for inaction.

I have immensely high willpower when it comes to stuff like not eating meat, not doing drugs, not drinking alcohol, and not doing stupid harmful shit, because I know it's stupid and harmful. Most people my age either succumb to peer pressure, or feel as though they're obliged in some way to "try" everything out. Not me--I read the books, and I refuse to put my hand in the flames of something that I know will burn me. It's as simple as that. Jive Turkey talks about how he's immune to addictions--Actually, I think that's me. I just have too much willpower.

I'm the kind of person who would intentionally get addicted to cigarettes, only to quit the very next day--just to prove that I could do it. Just to rub it in people's faces. Kinda like that guy in Trainspotting. When I gave up caffeine, it was cold turkey. When I gave up eating meat, that was cold turkey, as well. If I ever had the urge to break my edge, it's easy to fight it with sheer willpower alone. The power of my mind.

That's willpower in terms of inaction, where I find it easy to kick habits and never do anything I know is stupid or dangerous. Saying "no" to a friend is the easiest thing in the world to me.

On the flipside, my willpower in terms of action leaves much to be desired. I'm a binge procrastinator, and if I don't want to do something, I simply won't do it. If I'm obliged to do something that I don't want to do, you can expect me to work on it at the very last minute, or I'll just do the job really shitty. I find it extremely difficult to wake up in the morning, because I seriously would just rather sleep for the rest of my life. That would be great. I don't have the willpower to just buckle up and "do it" to the best of my ability.

To be fair, I tend to work hardest when I'm in dire straits, but that's not exactly a very healthy mindset. So to that end, my willpower could use some work.
Last Edit: March 10, 2016, 04:41:58 PM by Verbatim


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It takes friends to succumb to peer pressure Verb


 
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It takes friends to succumb to peer pressure Verb
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Depends on where I look. My upbringing as a kid left me with a lazy streak. And it's something I've always got to push against in order to do things. I've had depressive bouts which sap me further. I don't always come out on top. I slip up, sometimes. I'm weaker in will when it comes to my own personal life.

But switch it up. Put physical pain on me. Give me a debilitating injury of some kind, or a constant state of pain. And then, put somebody in front of me who asks for, or needs help. I've always come through for them. Even if what I'm doing is horrendously unpleasant. I even overcome my own personal barriers.

I think it'd be fair to say that I wouldn't have been able to get as far as I have without at least some decent measure of will.



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The will to do things comes and goes for me.

Work related, I can do a lot in a day and force myself to do it until a set time (and occasionally go over it if I'm really getting into it). I can get up at 7, be ready to do work by 8, and do work for the next 12 hours (with breaks for food, etc). For deadlines I make my best effort to finish a few days beforehand when possible. The fear of failure with serious consequences does that to me.

Once I don't have anything I'm obliged to do however, that goes out the window. For free weekends I regularly get up around 1pm because fuck it, I have nothing else to do and I can enjoy my inactivity. I can stop taking coffee whenever I want (as much of a cliché that sounds), and I have no desire to do other recreational drugs when I have important things to do (e.g. Haven't drunk alcohol or smoked weed in 2 months because I have shit to do and have no time for "extreme leisure" as I put it).

Breaking habits I want to break is a lot harder. Certain habits I've had for years and can get to a stage where it's almost stopped, and then relapse (although for one I can't be certain if it's just a habit or a syndrome - need a doctor's advice on that).
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Well I'm pretty good at not impulse buying shit. Maybe it's mire being stingy with money but I don't buy stuff all that often. And I have no want to even try alcohol/ drugs, I can't understand the appeal in the slightest. I imagine that if I did give up eating meat I could stick to it pretty easily, I just like roast dinners too much to start.

But yeah, I'm a pretty heavy procrastinator for stuff I don't want to do. On the other hand, I'm usually pretty good for stuff I have an interest in. Right now, I'm pretty much the only guy in my class at college consistently hitting deadlines for coursework, so that's cool. Last year, when I hated what I was doing, I waa awful at that shit.



 
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i quit smoking with ease, my willpower is good enough


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In the time it took for me to find a certain Green Lantern scan two or three people beat me to the reference.

But anyway, doing shit's not difficult. Just get up and...do it. Getting back to relaxing afterward is harder because it's like, "well fuck, what do I do now?"


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I like to think i have pretty good willpower both ways


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it's p balanced for me. I'll only consume Satan's lettuce/ the white man's seduction water in a safe confined setting w friends.. and tbh I've engaged in neither for about a year now.


as far as work goes, if another person is even the least bit affected in whatever it is we're trying to accomplish I usually lock shit down and deliver efficiently timed results.

everything else goes down the last minute bin.. I do make the ultimate effort to get things done though. 

health and fitness commitments usually enfetter themselves within recreational shit

think that's about it.