Is discipline a dirty word in your book? Hustle culture and diet culture have turned a lot of us against discipline. Should discipline have a place in our lives post-hustle culture? How do you redirect your discipline towards your passions instead of your body and your job? How do you unplug from hustle culture without quitting your job/school? How do you remember your passions post-burnout?
EPISODE SUMMARY:
I. WHAT IS DISCIPLINE? (4:19)
II. THE #GIRLBOSS ERA (7:02)
a. post-2008 recession: lean in or lose your job (8:09)
b. 2010s: hustle culture and glorification of overworking (11:04)
c. 2014: rise of the #girlboss (15:38)
d. mounting pressure to have a side hustle: MLMs and beyond (17:35)
e. meanwhile, diet culture reigns supreme (18:26)
III. BUT I DON'T WANNA BE A GIRLBOSS - THE FALL OF HUSTLE CULTURE (20:58)
a. COVID, the great resignation and mass burnout (24:10)
b. growing anti-diet culture sentiment (25:55)
c. “soft living" trend / rejection of discipline (27:34)
IV. TAKING BACK DISCIPLINE (31:22)
a. my experience with burnout & rejecting discipline (31:52)
b. what life without discipline actually looks like (38:37)
c. non-hustle-y examples of discipline + reframing discipline as devotion (42:03)
d. but what if I can’t unplug from hustle culture? I have a job lol (44:19)
e. what if I don’t even remember who I am outside of work/school? (50:29)
SOURCES:
Merriam Webster (definitions of discipline and self-control)
Brittanica (definition of will power)
Re: discipline in the Spartan military (https://tinyurl.com/htb6sfrz/)
Re: hours spent on work and school in the US (https://tinyurl.com/bdhn7wz9; https://tinyurl.com/yeykvhdp; National Center for Education Statistics from September 2006)
Re: diet culture in the 2010s (https://tinyurl.com/2p5cbr89)
Re: weird habits of tech CEOs (https://tinyurl.com/4uw5tduh)
Re: Michelle Obama criticizing Lean In (https://tinyurl.com/yxruv83j)
"I don’t wanna be a girl boss” tiktok by @mjwritess (*corrected username) (https://tinyurl.com/jtbj4zc4)
Elon musk tweets (https://tinyurl.com/5bc272kc)
