How to leverage alternative tactics to replace discipline and create a productivity lifestyle that works for you.
TL;DR:
Use genuine interest, habitual actions, and environmental design to replace discipline in places where it counts.
- Focus on developing strength in areas which you have genuine interest.
- Do a little bit of what you want to become good at every day.
- Design your environment to work for you rather than against you.
Discipline is overrated
I think you and I can agree that when it comes to discipline, the word is used a lot these days. We believe that discipline, and discipline alone will solve all of the world’s problems.
In our post-crash, mid-pandemic, 21st century culture, discipline has now become the idol which we worship, second only to its seemingly measurable outcome: productivity.
Productivity. Discipline.
Discipline. Productivity.
The problem with both is that one does not always beget the other, and even when it does, it…