I sometimes think “I shouldn’t deplete myself by doing unpleasant things that don’t matter a lot—I should save my willpower for the really important things.” Apparently this may get less true as I age, so I should push myself sometimes to find out how much ego depletion is really happening.
My first thought was “Does it matter?”.
My second thought was, “Maybe it matters for doing creative thought, which presumably can’t be done on autopilot”.
Is there a difference between pre-committing and going on autopilot?
I sometimes think “I shouldn’t deplete myself by doing unpleasant things that don’t matter a lot—I should save my willpower for the really important things.” Apparently this may get less true as I age, so I should push myself sometimes to find out how much ego depletion is really happening.