I quit willpower

a practice of choosing pleasure instead

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Here’s what I’ve learned this year: I do not need more willpower.

What I need is more pleasure.

In 2018, when I wrote the rough draft of How To Be Alone (my first full-length trail journal) it was such a struggle. And in 2021, when I edited …