Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial.

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how to become extremely disciplined. Because let me ask you a question. If I followed you around

for 30 days and I wrote down every promise that you made to yourself, something like,

I'm going to start tomorrow, or I'm going to go to the gym today, or I'm going to wake up early

tomorrow, or I'm going to finally start that business, or I'm going to start doing that habit.

How many of those promises would actually happen? Because here's the part that most people don't

really think about. Every time that you make a promise to yourself and you break it, your brain

updates a belief about who you are. And that belief becomes something like, I'm somebody who

doesn't follow through. And once that belief is instilled inside

of your brain, discipline becomes almost impossible. Not because there's something wrong with you,

not because you're lazy, but because your brain doesn't trust you anymore based off of all of the

data in your past. And so most people think the discipline is about like willpower

and motivation and grit. You've got to force yourself. You've got to push yourself. Yeah,

that can be part of discipline. But really, discipline is psychological more than it's anything else.

Like the deeper psychological mechanism behind it is something that's called

self-consistency theory. And so there's a psychologist named Daryl Bem who proposed that

humans infer who they are by watching their own behavior as if you're a person looking from

the outside and watching what you do. And so, in other words, your brain doesn't just

decide who you are out of nowhere. It basically observes you. It observes everything that you do,

everything that you say, everything that you don't do, and then it concludes who you must be.

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