In their very interesting--that is, to me--book, WILLPOWER--Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength , the authors, Roy F. Baumeister--social psychologist at Florida State University and the writer and science columnist--John Tierney of the New York Times, make the following clear:
If we want to have--And who doesn't?
1. a close-knit family
2. a good career
3. good health and
4. the freedom to pursue our passions,
the first thing we have to learn is how to harness self-control--what I call the pneuma (self) factor.
If Baumeister's thesis, that it is a science, is right--and I feel that it is--here are just a few questions I have been asking all my life:
1.Is self-control a science? Or
2.are we the simply the accidental victims of our DNA and our ecology--heredity and environment?
3.If it is a science, what is the next step?
