Morning, everybody. It is 2 a .m. here in Houston.
It's time for another morality lesson. If there's
any delay between the releases of these episodes,
keep in mind, like I said before, I am extremely
busy. But back to what we're working on here.
This is Thoughts If It Were You, Food for Thought
by Neo Gentrics. Last time, we covered respect
and perseverance. Next, we're going to cover
one of the more unused but is still well known
morals. Self control. By definition that is the
ability to control oneself and particularly one's
emotions desires or the expression of them in
one's behavior especially in difficult situations.
This one is usually linked with morality on the
terms that you know Willpower is one of the main
things that people possess Rather self -discipline
or this is also something that is well taught
in foreign cultures usually in martial arts Okay,
so What is self -control? Self -control separates
us from our ancient ancestors and the rest of
the animal kingdom Thanks to our large prefrontal
cortex or rather our brain if you will It is
basically the ability to subdue our impulses
in order to achieve long -term goals, rather
than responding to immediate impulses we can
plan, evaluate alternative actions, and often
enough avoid doing things we'll regret later.
Yes, this also does include pre -marital sex,
but that's a topic for another day. The ability
to exert... self -control is typically called
willpower and it will allow us to direct our
attention and it underlines all kinds of achievements
if you will there is a significant debate in
science right now as to whether or not willpower
is a finite resource and all but you know studies
still demonstrate that exercising willpower makes
heavy demands on mental energy notably on our
reserves of glucose, basically the sugar in your
body, the brain's preferred fuel, therefore creating
ego depletion. With self -control, you don't
really have to worry about one having a really
big ego, which is definitely a bonus. It's basically
one reason we're more apt to reach for that chocolate
chip cookie when we're feeling really stressed
out, like for a test or something, than when
we're feeling on top of the world. it's basically
that that's it's the definition of self -control
and It's basically something that scientists
have still Studying now like how do I put this
they they're trying to find a way to replicate
the same effect that self -control has Basically
with the same concept of ego depletion, but it
has yet to come to fruition or basically give
any steady Results if you will so I Mean with
this in mind Ask yourself these questions and
then we're gonna take a short break and then
I'm gonna talk about ways to build up your self
-control but ask yourself these questions or
Think about these questions if someone has asked
you Has anyone ever asked you, why are you so
impulsive? Can't you wait? Or why would you do
that when you could do it tomorrow? Or why are
you or should you really be smoking this here?
Or should you even be smoking at all? You know,
these questions are asked by a lot of people
to different people. And, you know, it's basically
comes down to restraint. Can you keep yourself
from doing it just because he's smoking doesn't
mean you should. But while peer pressure is a
thing, and I will be covering peer pressure in
a later date, it still comes down to whether
or not you want to do it. It doesn't matter if
everyone else is doing it. The question is, do
you want to do it? And can you resist doing this?