Nicolas Cole argues you don't need discipline for things you love doing. He'd write for free, but publishing requires 99 tedious steps like editing and buying ISBNs through Bowker. He does those boring tasks to make writing pay, not because he enjoys them.
It's not discipline. If you want to do it, you don't have to be disciplined when you're doing anything you enjoy. Discipline only kicks in as soon as you have to do something you don't enjoy. That's the real test. Can you still get yourself to do what you know you need to do even though you don't want to do it? I'll give you an example. I love writing. I don't have to be disciplined to write. I would do it for free. I do it because I genuinely enjoy it. Now, do I enjoy all the other things I have to do to make a living from my writing? Of course not. I just finished writing my next book. It's called Writer Career Paths, by the way, and I absolutely love writing it. You know what I didn't love and what required a lot of discipline? Editing it. Prepping it for publishing. Buying ISBNs for each different format Paperback, ebook, audiobook Inside of Bowker's website, which, if you're unfamiliar, looks like it was developed in 1999 there are probably 100 different tasks that are required for me to self publish a new book and only one of them is enjoyable. The writing the other 99 tasks are are extremely boring, extremely monotonous, and sometimes very, very frustrating. But I do them because that's what's required in order for the one thing I really love, which is writing, to make money and give me a life where I can do more writing again tomorrow.
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