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A synthesis of four decades of research into the psychology and neuroscience of self-control: how it depletes, how it recovers, how it trains, and when it matters most. Childhood self-control predicts adult health, wealth, and freedom from criminal conviction more reliably than social class. But the mechanism is not a character trait in the old moral sense — it is a trainable capacity that runs on finite metabolic resources, is shaped by beliefs and motivational framing, and can be bypassed entirely through environmental design. This article collects the seminal findings; [[habits-and-behavior…

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