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Jamison Price's avatar

Design > discipline!

Patrick Cummings's avatar

Yes! It's crazy -- I've started to think of discipline, in some ways, as a failure. Like a last-ditch effort to build the life you want.

Irina Strobl's avatar

True. And there’s a catch. To become someone for whom excellence is natural, you first have to take enough repeated action to build that identity. Which requires some source of discipline. You can’t persuade yourself into an identity you haven’t earned through repeated actions yet.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​