This doesn’t match my experience at all.

Specifically, this part.

“Imagine you’re in a meeting and someone plops a big box of doughnuts on the table,” Mann said. “To resist this doughnut, it’s not a one-time thing. You resist it when you first notice it, and you resist it every time you look up and see it again. I know I’d be tempted every time I looked up!” Resisting the doughnut, in other words, requires not just one act of self-control, but many — not to mention that each time you resist, it gets a little more difficult to do so, as self-control is thought to be a limited resource.

Do normal people really work this way? I am a stubborn, stubborn motherfucker so I guess I just don’t think like this at all.

When I decide something, it’s decided. If I decide not to eat the donut, I don’t eat the donut. Simple as that.

I truly do think having military experience helps with that sort of thinking and control. And just being naturally stubborn to start with.

For as similar as humans truly are, things can seem awfully different. I just can’t imagine being so, for lack of a better word, weak.