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Is discipline always the answer? 🤔

2023-12-20 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:55 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Mindset, motivation and happiness · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis, Lesson from a book

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali defines discipline as doing what you do not feel like doing, grants that it can be useful, and calls the discipline narrative incomplete: procrastination may have a cause under the surface, as psychologist Joseph Ferrari's comparison puts it.

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00:00:00 — Why discipline is not always the answer

  • ★★ Ali defines discipline as doing what we do not feel like doing, taking action however unmotivated you are, the opposite of motivation; he calls it the Nike school of getting things done: just do it. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali says discipline can be useful: sometimes he does not feel like going to work in the morning but goes anyway, which may be discipline. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Ali calls the discipline narrative incomplete: procrastinating on a speech may not mean too little discipline but something under the surface holding you back, which the narrative ignores while making you feel bad. — 00:00:28

  • ★★ Joseph Ferrari (quoted): Psychology professor Joseph Ferrari says telling a chronic procrastinator to just do it is like telling a clinically depressed person to cheer up. — 00:00:28

    “to tell the chronic procrastinator to just do it would be like saying to a clinically depressed person, cheer up.”

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Central: discipline

Also: Joseph Ferrari · Nike

Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)

Also centred on discipline: First Live Hangout + Rapid-fire Q&A · How to Be Effortlessly Disciplined: 5 Mindset Shifts

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