Self-regulation and its failure: The seven deadly threats to self-regulation.

If in each human life we count up what should be credited to the account of automatism, of habit, of the passions, and above all of imitation, we shall see that the number of acts that are purely voluntary, in the strict sense of the word, is very small. . . . Between the habits which render it useless and the maladies that mutilate or destroy it, the will as we have said above, must be taken as a happy accident. (Ribot, 1884, p. )