Discipline Redefined
What if true discipline isn’t about adding more habits, but about breaking free from the hidden routines silently controlling your life?
Author's summary: Discipline is about breaking free from hidden routines.
What if true discipline isn’t about adding more habits, but about breaking free from the hidden routines silently controlling your life?
The author, Jim Botten, used to think discipline was about cold showers at 4 AM and grinding through 16-hour workdays. However, after spending three months living with monks in a remote monastery in Nepal, he learned that the most disciplined people he'd ever met slept until they naturally woke up and spent hours doing what looked suspiciously like nothing.
The idea started as a dare from his therapist, who said, "You talk a lot about wanting more discipline," during one of their sessions, tilting her head in a way that meant she was about to say something that would annoy him.