Hi Nir,. Thanks for your response! I was not… | by Alykhan Gulamali | Medium

The science you’re referring to about willpower being finite is out of date.

Nir Eyal

Alykhan Gulamali

1 min readAug 19, 2017

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Hi Nir,

Thanks for your response! I was not aware the cookie study had been challenged and I learned a lot from your article. Thank you for sharing. I’ve updated my post.

Alykhan

Alykhan Gulamali

Written by Alykhan Gulamali

Author of Calorie Counting Made Easy and The Effort Matrix. Over 4M views in health, finance, and productivity. Trying not to suck at life.

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