I can anlogize this to what I read almost three years ago regarding the stoic philosopher Epictetus's thoughts on willpower. Quoting Sebastian Purcell PhD in my essay, https://medium.com/channspirations/the-serenity-prayer-df758d99c956 subtitled "Repurposed for Stoicism":

"For the Stoic tradition, the virtue for willpower doesn’t concern one thing, but three. Epictetus divides the topic of ethical study into three parts as follows:

The first has to do with desires and aversions …. The second, with cases of choice and refusal, and, in general, with duty … the third with the avoidance of error and rashness in judgment (III.2, 2–3).

The full implication of this division goes beyond what concerns us here. But if you remember that all the virtues are interrelated, then you’ll recognize that moderation has to be divided into these three domains.

What Epictetus is saying, effectively, is that

1. one part of willpower concerns the ability to do what is disagreeable,

2. another part concerns willing not to do something, and

3. a final part concerns knowing what you truly want in the first place.

These are, in short, your will-to, will-not-to, and want-to powers."