How mental distancing improves willpower and self-control:
"Self-control fails when we are not able to move in distance. When it's far away, it's easy. When it's close, it's really difficult."
"Referring to yourself in the third person creates psychological distance that gives you just enough to think of it as far as opposed to close."
"When you ask yourself 'What would Batman do?' you literally have to think like Batman. In other words, literally turning me and my cognitive system into somebody else."
Dr. Kentaro Fujita on @hubermanlab