Welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beeden. All right, we are going to talk today all about discipline.

I'm going to take a bit of a different approach here because I think whenever I see people talking about discipline, it's like the five ways to be more disciplined or, you know, the habits that you want to cultivate during discipline.

And I want to take a bit of a

different approach to talk about why discipline is so important. Because I think a lot of people

talk about what discipline is and how they should do it. But a lot of people don't talk. A lot of

people miss out on telling you why discipline is so bloody important. So I'm just going to put it out

there. And I think the reason why I'm just going to put it out there.

And I think the reason why I'm using this framework is that it goes back to the same,

you know, a man with any why can withstand anyhow.

I can't remember if that's Nietzsche or if that is Victor Frankel.

I may have botched who that actually is entirely.

So you might want to look it up.

Cite the quotes.

But in many ways, we need a why.

And for most of us, the reason why we struggle with discipline is because we don't have a good why.

We see discipline as a form of punishment.

We grew up in an

environment where discipline was used against us, used to control us. And for anyone, that kind of

discipline is not going to work because it's shame-based, because it's control-based, because it is

in some ways it feels like we are trying to manipulate or coerce ourselves. And just like other

people don't like to be manipulated or coerced, neither do we. And we don't like to feel like we're

having to manipulate or coerce ourselves. So here's why discipline is so important. Discipline is so

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