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How do I get my friends to think I have the best impulse control in our friend group?
The short answer is that there are many things you can do to appear as if you have better impulse control than your peers. You could, for instance, make it seem like you have a great deal of self-control by not engaging in the very discussion about whether or not one has control over their impulses.
This is, of course, a rather silly thing to do. But people are often convinced by such things. You could also convince your friends that you have better self-control than they do by not having the discussion at all.
There is a certain amount of subjectivity to the question; it depends on how you define 'impulse control'.
Even if you assume that 'impulse control' means the same thing to everyone, there are still many ways in which your friends could be convinced that you have more self-control than they do.
You could, for example, tell them that you have better self-control than they do. You could also make it seem like you have better impulse control by not responding to this comment.
The latter approach is more difficult than the former, but it might be more effective. If you simply tell your friends that you have better self-control than they do, then they may decide to test this theory in a way that would not work out well for you.