5 Ways to Be Self-Disciplined Without Making Yourself Miserable

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck Podcast

Mark Manson

Self-improvement, Education

4.8 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We often think self-discipline requires massive action and a lot of pain and sacrifice—but the reality is a lot more boring. Today, we tackle some common misconceptions about self-discipline, arguing that real change comes from setting up your environment for success, not grinding through endless struggle.

We explore the hidden dangers of romanticizing pain and why true self-discipline is more about boring consistency than epic feats of endurance. Hopefully, this episode challenges you to rethink how you approach your goals and habits. If you're ready to stop punishing yourself and start seeing real, lasting change, you won’t want to miss this.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Drew. It's taking so much willpower to be here right now.
0:03.4	Has it. Do you know how many amazing video games there are on my PlayStation at home?
0:10.3	I don't.
0:11.3	Come and hang out with me isn't enough. I mean, I don't come to hang out with me isn't enough it did I be I don't be
0:15.0	Elvin Ring or your Zelda or yeah you're you're fine all right it's uh it's okay
0:20.3	though I'm Mike I'm disciplined I'm like, I'm disciplined, I'm here. You know what I've discovered?
0:27.6	So this is my most recent self-discipline discovery and it relates to pot this podcast
0:32.8	relates to podcast in general.
0:34.4	So I for months and months and months
0:36.9	I had like all this like nagging housework
0:39.5	that needed to be done like you own a home,
0:42.0	you know how it goes like fucking gate latch breaks and
0:45.9	blinds need to be replaced and screen is fucked up like all these little things
0:51.7	that I kept putting off and I made a rule for myself which is I can't listen to
0:56.1	podcast unless I'm doing housework.
0:58.7	Oh and magically within like two weeks all the house shit got done. Wow okay so there you go there's a
1:06.2	hack for you kids at home pair something you'd like and you don't like and like
1:11.4	put them together and voila I like that all right in the show and you're
1:15.5	welcome device that's it I'm going back to Elden Ring. Well no we got I wanted to do this one because you've written about this before, you've written about self-discipline, but there's still, there's always this idea out there that we have to self discipline
1:33.2	discipline has to be really hard you know we need to like punish ourselves in a way
1:37.4	it's difficult we see all these people we see David Goggins out there you know on
1:40.4	Christmas morning at 5 a.m. running and oh that's what self-discipline is and it's just it's not that.
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