It appears that people, at some level, think that they can exert willpower over it and control it.

这说明在某种程度上,人们认为他们可以通过意志力控制结果

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Are you going to focus on willpower, restraint, and personal responsibility, and try to educate people, give them the skills and the knowledge it takes?

你是选择致力于,用意志力,控制力和个人责任,来设法教育大众,传授他们相关的知识技能

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Recall that frontal lobes are involved in things like restraint and willpower.

还记得额叶与约束力和意志力有关吧

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Quasi-magical thinking is an illusion that they documented that occurs regularly in people, which they might deny if asked about, but there's an illusion that I can control randomness through my willpower.

准神奇式思考是一种错觉,会定期在人们的思维中出现,他们也许会否认这点,但的确存在一种错觉,使人误以为可以通过意志力控制随机事件

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See this is testing your restraint because those of you who have willpower will stay for the rest of the class, the rest of you will flee the room and go to Starbucks right up on the corner and get something like this.

这简直是在考验你们对食物的抵抗力,因为你们中有意志力的人,会留下听完后半节课,其他人则会飞奔出教室,奔向在转弯角上的星巴克,然后买点吃的

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