With discipline, we can better organize our lives, yet still have the flexibility to pivot from the structure when necessary. We can also strike a balance between purposeful work and task completion with relaxing leisure time. Self-discipline is part of what comprises a virtuous life.
This is where a real human life begins.
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87 sats \ 6 replies \ @DesertDave 30 Oct
This is an interesting one for me. I tend to see myself as undisciplined. In the sense that I live without much structure. I am always working on the present right in front of me. I wait to feel inspired to move. And on the other hand my whole life requires what might be called discipline to many people. So am I disciplined? Maybe we should ask @Undisciplined 🤷‍♂️
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131 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 30 Oct
I think of being "undisciplined" as the stage after being disciplined, rather than just being an absence of discipline.
Like @Rothbardian_fanatic is saying, once you're capable of being disciplined you can start being productively flexible.
My reaction against being "disciplined" is about not being thoughtlessly rigid in our habits.
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71 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 30 Oct
You are right @Undisciplined, being disciplined allows you to be “undisciplined after you have done the necessary thinking. Many disciplined people look at second, third or fourth order consequences of what they are doing. The undisciplined may not even look at the direct consequences of their current actions.
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57 sats \ 3 replies \ @DesertDave 30 Oct
I agree. I am so hard on myself as it is. And I have done a lot of work to know myself. And it feels like in the past I had to force myself to be "disciplined". Now I want to flow with my reality. And I feel like I make big things happen. But it doesn't feel like it is because I am disciplined. Maybe I have a bad history with that word so I reject it. I like to feel free. Maybe I am disciplined.
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11 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 30 Oct
Perhaps you have disciplined yourself to match the vibrations around you in the ether. If you match the vibrations, many things come to you, along with the vibrations you are in harmony with.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DesertDave 30 Oct
This makes some sense to me and is helpful for me. I feel like I have a rigorous practice and no discipline. This helps me make sense of this. Thank you.
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11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 30 Oct
You’re welcome! Happy to share.
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21 sats \ 4 replies \ @ContraMundum 30 Oct
Self discipline is a way of life. Without it, your destined to fly off a cliff
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 30 Oct
Maybe once we fly off the cliff we can fly.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 30 Oct
Another way to say it is without discipline, you will keep digging the hole you are in.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ContraMundum 30 Oct
Haha. In that case, you’re probably already in a crater with no way out
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 30 Oct
There is always a way out! No matter how deep the crater disciplined people can climb out. It just takes discipline.
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11 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cotton 30 Oct
True freedom :)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 30 Oct
Yes, if you are disciplined enough to accept it.
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