When the brain desires one thing ideally but pragmatism forces it to the
other and you try to exert power to do the more useful thing!
Natural intention and controlled motivation don’t get along for the majority of a
human’s life.
Willpower
over-usage leads to burning out and stopping early! And when setbacks
kick in, for instance academic responsibilities, controlled goals may
have a hard time competing against natural intentions. This is because
the usage of willpower will never stop, so the human mind might
not feel like its needs are met. Plans for these things usually get
dropped after a while.
However, when goals reflect peoples’ authentic values and interests, it
increases goal progress and effort, decreases risk of dropping out,
increases goal attainment and also reduces distraction!
Research shows willpower is an independent risk factor for action paralysis: This
is insane, but it actually is the case.
No, pretty much not at all! Disproof by contradiction: Little willpower is needed for consistency to play videogames, or spend time on social media, due to immediate gratification! Consistency comes mainly from WANTS! Consistency can come with willpower, but willpower is horribly limited and unpredictable, so it’s usually better to just use intrinsic drives to do actions on a consistent basis! Unfortunately, this mostly only occurs when you have agency (not examination system). That’s why people like habits, but they just raise the floor for behavior, not causing people to excel any more by themselves, so I don’t recommend it!