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Will, habit, and the limits of character

Why knowing better is not doing better.

• If insight does not change you, what does?
  Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics, II.1-4 · c. 340 BCE · Will, habit, and the limits of character
• Which of your desires do you want to have?
  Harry Frankfurt · Freedom of the Will and the Concept of a Person, Journal of Philosophy 68 · 1971 · Will, habit, and the limits of character
• How much of your character is just the room you are standing in?
  John Doris · Lack of Character · 2002 · Will, habit, and the limits of character
• How much of what you believe about your mind would survive a replication?
  Open Science Collaboration · Estimating the Reproducibility of Psychological Science, Science 349 · 2015 · Will, habit, and the limits of character

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