Why God Made Boys

God made a world out of His dreams,
of magic mountains, oceans and streams,
Prairies and plains and wooded land.
Then paused and thought
I need someone to stand, on top of the mountains,
to conquer the seas, explore the plains
and climb the trees.
Someone to start out small and grow,
sturdy and strong like a tree and so
He created boys, full of spirit and fun
To explore and conquer, to romp and run
With dirty faces, and banged up chins
With courageous hearts and boyish grins.
And when He had completed the task He’d begun,
He surely said, “That’s a job well done.”

Temptation Exhaustion

I listened to this great interview with the author of “Predictably Irrational” on NPR a while back that really got me thinking. It was about self control, cheating and giving in to temptation. The text of the interview is here:
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/12/07/pm-self-control/

What most interested me was his exercises in trying to deplete the person’s resistance to temptation.

“…in fact all the decisions don't have to be the same way. So, for example, if you are seeing a funny movie, and you can think whatever makes you laugh, and you get instructions: don't laugh. And you try very, very hard to hold yourself from not laughing, you're using all your self-control ability to basically make sure that you're not going to laugh. And then I say, what do you want, chocolate cake or an apple? Now, you're much more likely to go for the chocolate cake.”

So I wonder if a company could use this to exhaust users’ resistance to temptation, and then offer them an up-sale opportunity.