[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Persistence]] - People: [[Steven Bartlett]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G57QInhSnJk --- ## Summary - [[The discipline equation]] is Discipline = Importance + Enjoyment - Cost. - If the cost is too high, the behaviour will not occur. - [[No time management technique works unless you have this underlying thing called "discipline".]] - [[Make hard things easy]]. Reduce all friction so that you can just do the work. - [[Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with]]. ## Notes ### Pain & purpose - [[Orient towards the pain to become aligned with what you're capable of accomplishing rather than just orienting towards the pleasures.]] - [[Your blessing in life is when you find the torture you're comfortable with]]. - [[Struggle shapes your purpose]]. [[The path to purpose is paved with pain]]. ### Discipline equation - [[The discipline equation]] is Discipline = Importance + Enjoyment - Cost. - If the cost is too high, the behaviour will not occur. - If the importance of the goal is high enough, you will do what is needed, regardless of how little you enjoy it and how much the cost. - [[When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.]] - Shape your environment and situation where the cost does not supersede the importance of the goal. - To understand discipline you have to understand the scarcity of time. [[No time management technique works unless you have this underlying thing called "discipline".]] - [[Make hard things easy]]. Reduce the cost for getting things done. - [[Be driven, not dragged.]] ### Time - [[Time is the currency we're playing with in every moment in our lives]]. - [[Time is the most important, finite, and permanent resource.]] - [[To learn to die is to be liberated from it]].