Dr. Kentaro Fujita

And I love the fact that you used the word toolkit.

My colleague, Ethan Cross, and I, we wrote a paper in which we talked about the self-control toolkit.

Basically, we argued we have lots of different ways to enhance self-control.

We speculate that certain tools might work better for certain people at certain times.

We don't currently have a very good framework for predicting what would be the right strategy for this kind of person in this kind of situation.

And so if your listeners are saying, wow, that totally would not work for me,

That's okay by me too.

I don't think there's going to be one tool that's going to work for everybody.

The self-control toolbox approach explicitly embraces the idea that different things are going to work for different people.

So if you're the kind of person who's very reactant,

someone who says, no, I can do it, then you might want to think about all the bad things people say about you because you're going to react to it and say, no, I'm going to do it.

But if you're the kind of person who tends to listen to what people say and you incorporate their perspectives and they're saying bad things about you, well, then that's probably going to have a demotivating effect, right?

So again, the strategy that works so well for one individual may not work for another.

It may also be that certain self-control strategies work for certain contexts and not for others.

So for example,

You know, for me getting started with the workout is the hardest part.

I have a litany of reasons why I don't want to do this today.

And so for me the hardest part is just getting on the bike or starting to lift weights.

You know, sometimes it's just putting on the workout clothes.

The strategies I use for that,