STUDY: People With A Lot Of Self-Control Are Happier Than The Rest Of Us

PROBLEM: "Among humankind's most valuable assets" is self-control, according to Wilhelm Hofmann and his team of researchers at the University of Chicago.
They define it as "the ability to override or change one's inner responses" and to refrain from acting on impulses.

As an immediate consequence of leading lives of constant self-denial, it would seem that people with a lot of self-control aren't likely to derive a lot of pleasure from life, although in the long run they might benefit from the satisfaction of being better able to realize long-term goals.

They don't get to enjoy the cronuts, but they get to be thin, healthy, and otherwise better than the rest of us.

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