Workers know logically that they need to save more for retirement, but they struggle to forgo present consumption, owing to lack of self-control, an emotional bias.
When you compare the brain scans of a group of troubled kids who are not doing very well, including spending too much time online, to normal, healthy kids you find differences in areas of the brain implicated in decision-making, self-control, and emotional regulation.
But we do think that the public response to his self-control shows how poorly Stoic qualities can go over in our times: a philosophy built on emotional control seems strange in the age of over-sharing.