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"Discipline is remembering what you want." When that works, it's not 'discipline'; it's getting less conflicted.
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The real answer to productivity and motivation is to resolve the conflicts you have. Once unconflicted about what to do, even hard work is effortless, motivation-wise. (And fun. #ReasonIsFun) It becomes effortful to *not* do it. It pulls you in and demands you keep working.
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Discipline is fighting yourself. Wasted energy. Wasted creativity. Put that instead into figuring out what you actually most want. Solve problems in doing what you want with reason, not force.
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It sounds cute and simplicistic — like meaningless motivational self-help talk — but the world really does work this way. Problems really are soluble. What's stopping you really is conflicting ideas. Force is trying to reach answers/truth using brute authority instead of reason.
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"I've tried everything! Self-discipline, Beeminder, social media time-outs, Tony Robbins, waking at 5am... Nothing seems to work!" Cool, have you tried reason?
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On how willpower and escapism are two sides of the same coin:
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hadn't really thought of it this way before, but "escapism" is rarely about escaping from the actual world around you, but rather *your own anxiety* about your problems looks like a "use of force" against part of yourself, just as clearly as "willpower"
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Helpful as far as it goes - but is this philosophy sweeping the dust under other people's carpets? As a counsellor, I wonder how you'd suggest people resolve these conflicts, some rooted in the past (eg attachment styles), some in biology (eg ADHD), some who knows where?
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