Discipline is a measure of how 'sticky' your conscious attention is. If you look at a bag of chips or chocolate cake and your thoughts keep returning to it despite not wanting to, it's a sign of non-disciplined consciousness.
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It's a skill because it's the gaining of new information. It's just that that new information is difficult to gain and associated with physical and mental pain.
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Hyperspecializing in physical discipline is the dumb jock archetype while hyperspecializing in mental discipline is the skater boy archetype. Respectively each pushes back the body's physical pain alarm and the fear alarm.
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Neither is associated with "business success". Is it that being good at business isn't about being disciplined? Or that due to hyperspecialization the above archetypes don't have 'real' discipline?
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It's a bit of both. Self-control and professionalism, which are key requirements for business success, aren't about calibrating your limits, they're about staying far away from them so you don't 'slip'. A lawyer is the pinnacle of this type of discipline.
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Similarly, if the source of pain becomes a source of pleasure, fun, or meaning, they no longer act as a calibration for your limits, they're just addictions at a certain point.
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