Day 118 - Disciplined on outside but uses least discipline inside https://golifelog.com/posts/disciplined-on-outside-but-uses-least-discipline-inside-1619596897314
The people with the best self‑control are typically the ones who need to use it the least. It’s easier to practice self‑restraint when you don’t have to use it very often. So, yes, perseverance, grit, and willpower are essential to success, but the way to improve these qualities is not by wishing you were a more disciplined person, but by creating a more disciplined environment.
From Chapter 7 of Atomic Habits by James Clear
there’s something surprisingly counterintuitive about the bigger idea behind this post:
The smaller example: Leaning the least on discipline ends up looking like discipline on the outside.
The bigger idea: The ones who look like they have the most of something on the outside are actually using that something the least inside.
What other phenomena lives by that inverse principle of abundance on outside, scarcity on inside?
From Chapter 7 of Atomic Habits by James Clear
there’s something surprisingly counterintuitive about the bigger idea behind this post:
The smaller example: Leaning the least on discipline ends up looking like discipline on the outside.
The bigger idea: The ones who look like they have the most of something on the outside are actually using that something the least inside.
What other phenomena lives by that inverse principle of abundance on outside, scarcity on inside?