# Yes, but we have lots and lots of willpower

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/yes-but-we-have-lots-and-lots-of-willpower/5945>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [October 30, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/yes-but-we-have-lots-and-lots-of-willpower/5945 "2019-10-30T16:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![drtall](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drtall/32/1341_2.png) [@drtall](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drtall)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/yes-but-we-have-lots-and-lots-of-willpower/5945/1 "2019-10-30T16:08:08Z")

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My child got a copy of _Frog and Toad Together_ recently, and this story is basically Beeminder in a nutshell. Somebody went to the trouble of putting it online already:

> **[Here is a story from Frog and Toad about willpower. Stay strong. Go to the...](https://medium.com/@jessamyn/here-is-a-story-from-frog-and-toad-about-willpower-stay-strong-go-to-the-library-a6d7beac5776)**
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> Toad baked some cookies. “These cookies smell very good,” said Toad. He ate one. “And they taste even better,” he said. Toad ran to Frog’s…

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**Author:** ![byorgey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/byorgey/32/70_2.png) [@byorgey](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/byorgey)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/yes-but-we-have-lots-and-lots-of-willpower/5945/2 "2019-10-30T20:22:14Z")

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This is one of my favorite Frog and Toad stories! They are all good though. =)

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**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/yes-but-we-have-lots-and-lots-of-willpower/5945/3 "2019-10-31T03:31:48Z")

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Yup, we have this book and now I feel very silly that I never mentioned it anywhere in Beeminderland before! \<3 \<3

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**Author:** ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/yes-but-we-have-lots-and-lots-of-willpower/5945/4 "2019-10-31T16:52:20Z")

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[The article that’s a comment on](https://medium.com/create-make-write/how-do-you-stop-buying-too-many-books-dc76fc7caa03) makes reading seem so joyless. 😱 (Caveat: at least for me. I like reading what friends/book club members are reading, reading multiple books at once, getting new books – part of the joy of books is in those things, and there is not much of the joy in books in treating my shelves like a curriculum to read through.)

I’m with Toad. I’m off to ~~bake a cake~~ buy some new books and finish reading this book I randomly grabbed off my shelf`*` and got neck-deep into by accident`**`.

(Okay, no, actually I’m off to finish replying to things in the support inbox, but I will certainly be reading after that, and buying new books _soon_.)

`*` _Excellent Intentions_ by Richard Hull.  
`**` Of course it is possible to start reading a book by accident. You just read the first page, to see what the tone is like, and then you’re sucked in, and then it’s half an hour later and you might as well finish the book.