Discipline Pt 2
Yesterday I left you with the idea that discipline is the most difficult human trait to acquire because, well, you don’t really acquire it. It’s something you have to build completely on your own through mental and physical suffering.
And after my little experiment I did and failed miserably at, I think I know the reason behind so many peoples’ lack of discipline. The answer is truly unsurprising: It’s (mostly) not your fault—it’s social media’s. But of course, like everything, it’s not that simple. I think that after tons of suffering under the “ambitious but lazy” syndrome, checking social media and my phone and watch constantly for notifications became not something that I would do occasionally, but almost every second of my day when they were near me.
I also want to talk about the other factors that are equally important when addressing this huge epidemic of being “ambitious but lazy” (I don’t know if that’s an official thing or not, but I’m going to use it for simplicity). It’s one of the most dangerous epidemics of our time because there are so many brilliant young minds out there that are capable of doing so much, yet are held back by a device that literally sucks time and creativity out of their souls.
Tomorrow, I’ll dive a lot deeper into these. It’s currently 10:40 pm, and I was seriously thinking about quitting and going to bed after an absolutely exhausting day with track and field and tons of homework, projects, and tests. But I did it anyway for the sake of developing discipline, and I’m actually quite proud I’ve done this. I’m sure that as the reader you can tell that my writing is sort of jumbled, all over the place, and not very concise nor fully coherent at times. This is something I want to work on in the future.
I also want to write about guilt and how it can seriously damage your mental health in ways that perhaps you never knew before, how to address that with stoicism and other forms of philosophy to better your life and business ventures.
Signing off till tomorrow,
Daniel
