Situational Strategies for Self-Control

Argues that situational selection and modification outperform willpower as routes to goal pursuit. Five families of strategies, with situational ones (choosing or changing the environment) shown to be more durable than self-control alone.

Peer-reviewed support for the framework's Orientation lever 'modify or avoid bad situations.' Duckworth — the public face of grit — argues against treating willpower as the leverage point, which converges with MN's claim that the trait economy is governed by Nature × Situation × Orientation rather than effort.

Cited as adjacent-literature confirmation in THEORY-OF-TRAITS.md (Adjacent literature — Duckworth section). Used in any external-facing discussion of grit-vs-alignment to show the field is moving toward MN's position. Lineage framing, not opposition.

Stops short of a Nature taxonomy — treats the agent as generic and persistence as a generic capacity. No concept of trait-specific energetic load or signal acuity. Situational engineering is framed as a behavioral skill rather than a developed quality of self-and-situation reading (AQ).