Self Discipline Is A Patch

Lulie:

“Self discipline” is a patch for being conflicted about what you want to do.

Often, productive people are interpreted as “having discipline”: able to force themselves to do the work even when it’s unpleasant.

But creative productivity only ever works in spite of that.

“Discipline is remembering what you want.”

When that works, it’s not “discipline”; it’s getting less conflicted.

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.

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.

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.