Chapter 8. How to Use Willpower Limits Instead of Letting Them Use You?

There are a number of common characteristics among great developers. However, few virtues are as important as willpower. World class coders constantly are forced to work through complex concepts, and without willpower they would give up before experiencing any kind of breakthrough. In this chapter, I'm going to walk through the topic of willpower limits.

This will include a practical walk through on:

  • What willpower limits are
  • How you can improve your personal willpower limits
  • A plan for being intentional about managing willpower limits

What are willpower limits?

For graduate school I have performed extensive research on the topic of task switching costs. While studying about task ...

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