Two people argue discipline is life's most important factor: the willingness to do unpleasant things repeatedly without immediate reward. They push back on fitness culture that calls early mornings disciplined if you enjoy them. Real discipline is how many consecutive uncomfortable, unrewarded actions you can endure.
If there's one fucking key to life, in my opinion, discipline. Okay, I'm fucked. I mean, discipline, discipline's everything, guys. Discipline's everything. It's also really hard. Yeah, but when I looked at it like this, it kind of changed how I thought about it. Okay, discipline. Yeah, is action. Okay, or lack thereof. You either do something or you don't do something. Okay, you have discipline.
Do you need a lot of discipline to have sex? Hell no, right? It's an action though. So, so if I, if I have a definition, the idea is like, can I break the definition? If I can break the definition, then it can't, it can't be that because— yeah, fair. Okay, okay. That was in the gym space, right? So I had all these trainers who would like lecture people on how they weren't disciplined, but I was like, y'all aren't disciplined. And they were like, what do you mean? I wake up at 5 AM every day and I go to the gym. I was like, because you fucking like it. That's not discipline. It's about doing the things you don't like to do for an extended period of time without getting reward. So the more disciplined you are is how many, how many times can you do a punishing event without receiving reward in a row? And then discipline then becomes not are you disciplined or not disciplined, but how disciplined are you?
