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Temptation: Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess by Daniel Akst

Temptation: Finding Self-Control in an Age of Excess Daniel Akst ebook
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: pdf
Page: 320
ISBN: 9780143120803

This is all sounding very freud-y (i.e. Avoiding pain, finding pleasure). Jan 12, 2011 - Akst [author of the book We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess] knows why you didn't: “self-control fatigue,” which is as American as microwaved apple pie. Looking back I think - wish - some of those times I'd held on, and instead gone to new level upward and out foxed all of them with charm and blew their minds in some way that gave everything a new lease of life. Anonymous January 10, 2011 at 8:18 PM. It's the nature of It's self destruction m.e. Feb 11, 2014 - That's all well and good if you believe you can control where your thoughts go. And kant but both were too far one way or the other on the idea of discipline and self-control. Believe it or not, it's not a sociopathic thing. Self-control is a corollary of the self and identity, and how we form that identity will also form our notion of self-control, or, discipline.