Would <Will-Power> have a limit?

“Well-Power is truly essential for our life” as I believe so I searched there is interesting articles to share wit you.

Anyway, there have been many data showing the stronger you control yourself facing to your temptation, the the more you can achieve your goal because will-power is highly capable of self-controlling.

Here is the thing that “will-power has its limit.” There has been a theory as much as you use will-power, it will decrease. So it is saying that “lets good take care for will-power!” Like that.

<WILLPOWER : Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength> who wrote professor Roy F. Baumeister, spreading this theory for the world and <The Willpower Instinct Based on the Wildly Popular Course of Stanford University> professor Kelly McGonigal that she picked up the theory from him for her basic theme in her teach. So it surely is approved and well-known in the world.

https://amzn.to/2VEDDnm

There was pretty bad results showing up with meta-analysis and follow-up study...
So there has put a huge question for “willpower depletion(ego-depletion)” theory on.

This research comes from Curtin University, 2,141 men and women were targeted to follow up “willpower depletion(ego-depletion)”theory. 23 labs were included to take Baumeister’s recommended method and checked “if there is a certain point to decrease willpower as much as you use it.”

What came with the result was [ZERO effectiveness]... No Way! There were close to null depletion phenomenons for willpower in all laboratories (d = 0.14, 95% CI [−0.02, 0.30]).

There have been quoted major article about “willpower depletion(ego-depletion)” for more than 3,000 researches and even an article from 2010, they did meta-analysis, authorized (d=0.62).↓

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20565167/

After that result came up and University of Miami showed “Is 2010’s meta-analysis wrong?”

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00823/full

Why they said it, in short, I just point out↓
* This meta-analysis doesn’t include inconvenient data into it(let’s say it’s called published bias)
* The researchers from University of Miami reanalyzed including all data that needs to be proven. They found there is no supportive evidence for the theory of willpower depletion(ego-depletion).

It has not been set to be wrong but be back where it started
Of course professors Baumeister had counterargument “Because my original article’s experiment design is different” however, originally a follow-up design was used articles or researches which approved by professor Baumeister. So his counterargument is kind of weak for me.

Well, in psychology, there have been many almost close to “willpower depletion(ego-depletion)” phenomenons found for example, vigilance depletion so can not deny all of it perfectly. Somehow, this follow-up is pretty strong rebutting evidence so a question of “How should we get a picture of willpower?” is now back in the beginning.

So lets think about what will coming up “willpower” be?
As long as they said “willpower doesn’t deplete even how much you consume it.” It is sure our body doesn’t cheat us. Likely we feel fatigue and lost your self-control in a reality. That is why <Willpower Depletion> theory comes up here and got our attention.

Let’s stop it here because it seems long enough at this time so the next topic we discuss will be↓
* How do we think of <Willpower> from that point?
* Is it already useless technique From the past we know?

Please keep up with me I am sure it going to be long enough for argument for this matter. Well, bye for now.