How I Rediscovered Discipline Post-Diet Culture & Hustle Culture

Soul Gum

by Victoria Hutchins

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.9 • 561 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Is discipline a dirty word in your book? Hustle culture and diet culture have turned a lot of us against discipline. Should discipline have a place in our lives post-hustle culture? How do you redirect your discipline towards your passions instead of your body and your job? How do you unplug from hustle culture without quitting your job/school? How do you remember your passions post-burnout?

EPISODE SUMMARY:

I. WHAT IS DISCIPLINE? (4:19)

II. THE #GIRLBOSS ERA (7:02)

a. post-2008 recession: lean in or lose your job (8:09)

b. 2010s: hustle culture and glorification of overworking (11:04)

c. 2014: rise of the #girlboss (15:38)

d. mounting pressure to have a side hustle: MLMs and beyond (17:35)

e. meanwhile, diet culture reigns supreme (18:26)

III. BUT I DON'T WANNA BE A GIRLBOSS - THE FALL OF HUSTLE CULTURE (20:58)

a. COVID, the great resignation and mass burnout (24:10)

b. growing anti-diet culture sentiment (25:55)

c. “soft living" trend / rejection of discipline (27:34)

IV. TAKING BACK DISCIPLINE (31:22)

a. my experience with burnout & rejecting discipline (31:52)

b. what life without discipline actually looks like (38:37)

c. non-hustle-y examples of discipline + reframing discipline as devotion (42:03)

d. but what if I can’t unplug from hustle culture? I have a job lol (44:19)

e. what if I don’t even remember who I am outside of work/school? (50:29)

SOURCES:

Merriam Webster (definitions of discipline and self-control)

Brittanica (definition of will power)

Re: discipline in the Spartan military (https://tinyurl.com/htb6sfrz/)

Re: hours spent on work and school in the US (https://tinyurl.com/bdhn7wz9; https://tinyurl.com/yeykvhdp; National Center for Education Statistics from September 2006)

Re: diet culture in the 2010s (https://tinyurl.com/2p5cbr89)

Re: weird habits of tech CEOs (https://tinyurl.com/4uw5tduh)

Re: Michelle Obama criticizing Lean In (https://tinyurl.com/yxruv83j)

"I don’t wanna be a girl boss” tiktok by @mjwritess (*corrected username) (https://tinyurl.com/jtbj4zc4)

Elon musk tweets (https://tinyurl.com/5bc272kc)

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, this is my first podcast ever. Welcome to Solgum. Thank you for being here. I'm so excited. I also have no idea what I'm doing. I'm sitting in my closet right now because I realized that my entire apartment is extremely loud except for in here.
0:25.5	I hope it's not offensively background noisy right now. I was hoping we could just pretend
0:31.9	this isn't my first podcast if that's okay with you because I'm figuring you're here one of two ways one you
0:40.2	either know me from elsewhere on the internet right in which case why would I introduce myself
0:45.4	you know me good to see you hello or two if you just stumbled on this because you're interested
0:51.7	in this topic rediscovering discipline after diet culture and hustle culture,
0:57.0	then you don't really care who I am at this stage, right?
1:01.0	You just want the info, and I respect that.
1:04.0	So let's get into it.
1:06.0	So today I want to talk about discipline or willpower
1:10.0	and how as we're moving into a new
1:13.8	cultural era where we're thinking about work and success and happiness differently,
1:21.8	discipline has become kind of a dirty word.
1:26.3	So we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the rise and
1:29.6	fall of discipline as a benchmark of a worthy human, which we're going to track really closely to
1:36.8	the rise and fall of hustle culture. And then we're going to explore whether in a time where
1:43.7	we're waking up to the fact that things like diet culture
1:47.5	and hustle culture and rising and grinding and girl bossing are not in our best interest
1:55.2	we're realizing I don't want to be a girl boss. I don't want to rise and grind.
2:02.0	Grinding sounds unpleasant.
2:03.8	I want to rise and eat a good breakfast and enjoy my life.
2:08.7	In this time where we're realizing those things,
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