This morning you awoke to the wonderful smell of cinnamon rolls cooking. your roommate offers you one of these fresh baked delicacies, but you choose the healthier option of oatmeal and fruit. when you get to class, you see that one of your classmates brought in doughnuts. due to you will have a harder time demonstrating restraint.

This morning you awoke to the wonderful smell of cinnamon rolls cooking. your roommate offers you one of these fresh baked delicacies, but you choose the healthier option of oatmeal and fruit. when you get to class, you see that one of your classmates brought in doughnuts. due to ego depletion, you will have a harder time demonstrating restraint.

Ego depletion is the idea that an individual’s self-control and decision making willpower has limited strength especially when one is going against his preferences. A state of ego depletion makes it steadily more uneasy to resist or overcome one’s urges and to make wise choices .