True discipline
jasonleow • 9 May 2024 •
It’s amazing how hard it is for me at this phase in life, to just sleep enough each night, and not worry about needing to wake up early to hustle hard.
Yet, true discipline isn’t about being able to wake up at 4am no matter what. True discipline is assessing the situation objectively, and doing what it is needed, despite not preferring it, despite being anxious about not doing enough. That includes resting.
Counterintuitive but true, because when people think discipline, they think it’s about overcoming laziness. In this case, discipline also means taking the rest I truly need, in order to go further later.
Today I learned a new nuance to Jocko Willink’s “Discipline equals freedom”.
Discipline to rest is freedom from hustle stress and anxiety.
Rest hard, rest well, friends.
Comments
@haideralmosawi I still have yet to read the proper justification for going to bed at 2AM…
@therealbrandonwilson I don’t have a justification (i.e. there is no reasonable excuse for why I do it). Sometimes it’s when the wife and I wind down for the day. Sometimes I have work I need to catch up on. Sometimes an afternoon “nap” or a late coffee mess up with my sleep.
I’m surprised “spending time on Twitter/X” didn’t make the cut…
@therealbrandonwilson Oh yeah. That too. 😑
I find it important to make the decision on when to wake up when I go to sleep, not when I wake up. What I’m doing right now is to say: I’m going to sleep around 2AM. That means I’m not going to aim to wake up at 5AM.
If I rely on my “Morning Brain” to make that decision, it’ll always choose more sleep. 😂