A few years back, I heard someone say that in order to overcome temptation, we should shift our focus from the point of temptation to a greater desire. I was reminded of this when my wife and I took ...

Considering how much of the moral life involves overcoming temptation, it’s surprising how little attention the subject receives. (Let’s be honest: when was the last time you found yourself in a ...

It’s been repeated many times since, but it was probably Irish poet and dramatist Oscar Wilde who first declared, “I can resist everything except temptation.” Kind of like stating, “I’m not tempted to ...

In my last post, I talked a bit about how you might overcome holiday temptations by thinking locally. Another strategy that people often try is to rely on strength drawn from past experience. For ...

Each day, after long hours at work, Katy Milkman — a young professor at the University of Pennsylvania — would head straight home, lay down on the couch and read her favorite book, The Hunger Games.