A bestseller Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength, suggests that willpower (意志力) is the ability to make decisions that are better for us in the long term, rather than in the short term.

《意志力：重新发现人类最伟大的力量》这本畅销书表明意志力是做决定的能力，从长远而非短期来看对我们更有益。

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Frequent short breaks are better than less-frequent, long breaks. Set your software timer to stop you every half hour or so.

经常性的短暂休息比非经常性的长时间休息要好。所以设置你的计时软件大约每半小时提醒你一次。

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Frequent short breaks are better than less-frequent, long breaks.

经常性的短暂休息比非经常性的长时间休息要好。

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Ya'ir explained that short-cuts are not necessarily better than long roads.

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Because his long-term memory is better than his short-term memory, Bordisso moved back to his childhood home in Sacramento, California.

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So as frustrating as it may be for the college grad or the MBA, the fact of the matter is you are still going to be much better off than if you didn't have that education short term as well as long term.

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