A Self-Controlled Mind Is Reflected by Stable Mental Processing

Ten pages in, an attempted summary:

Measured as longer-duration microstates, longer thoughts and fewer of them correspond to less sensitivity to distraction and more self-control. This standing in contrast to "strength" models of willpower and self-control.

This is interesting. I wonder if some part of the result may echo e.g. a functional interface between big-picture (low-frequency) and little-picture (higher-frequency) processing. For example, planning in the measure-twice cut-once style, which would fold in (what would otherwise become) distractions from the start. The bigger-picture focus would tend to lower the number of overall processing steps in that way, at a guess...