Ego Depletion
Exerting self-control through the executive functions in decision making is held in some theories to deplete one's ability to do so in the future.
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“The boundary line between self and external world bears no relation to reality; the distinction between ego and world is made by spitting out part of the inside, and swallowing in part of the outside.”
—Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)