The chapter delves into the importance of self-discipline in achieving goals during the tumultuous twenties, highlighting key concepts like consistency, understanding setbacks, and treating self-discipline as a skill. It offers practical steps rooted in psychology for building self-discipline, emphasizing the significance of internal motivation over external validation. The discussion also focuses on leveraging social accountability, micro habits, and breaking down big goals into manageable tasks to enhance self-discipline and create lasting lifestyle changes.
Self discipline is the key ingredient to unlocking everything you want in life. But despite that many of us treat it like its optional and believe the narrative that self discipline requires perfection, requires sacrifice and is too hard. Actually, self discipline is anything but, it is actually the road of least resistance. In this episode we break down 5 tips for building self discipline in any area of life:
- Understanding your motivation
- Leveraging social accountability and desirability bias
- The power of micro habits
- Hacking our dopamine systems through instant versus delayed gratification
- Shifting from learned helplessness to learned industriousness
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