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Choosing the path of discipline
“The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable prerequisite for success.” — Brian Tracy
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The Pleasure Withholding’s Path
You need to use the rational part of your brain and persuade yourself to renounce easy gratification in the present, so you can have greater satisfaction later. And since you delayed the pleasure of the marshmallow for the moment, reward your fatigue with twice t...
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The Marshmallow Experiment
A significant amount of literature links those topics, but it all started with the Marshmallow Experiment: a study led by Walter Mischel in 1972.
This experiment was simpl...
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Two Choices
Discipline is a goal you can reach over two paths:
- Pleasure withholding
- Unpleasant habits.
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The Dam of Pleasure
If you want to use well your rational part of the brain, and apply delayed gratification, think about your ability to delay gratification as a dam.
- If you keep it open, the river of minor pleasures passes in any instant under your gates, and you get u...
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The Unpleasant Habits’ Path
Do you know what makes people successful? Healthy habits performed every day.
- Make the habit so simple you can’t say no. Let it involve the smallest effort, so it doesn’t considerably change your life in the beginning.
- Use the 5 Seconds Rule. S...
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Take the path of most resistance
“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” - Chris Bradford
Every second you're making a choice. It's a hidden choice to live your best life or live a life of mediocracy.
The best life is doing things over short-term pleasure or just taking the path of more pleasure. However, ...
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