Do I Need More Discipline? | Monday Advice

Tell me if this sounds familiar. You have some ambitious plan for meaningful or productive things that you want to accomplish, but then your phone enters the scene and the next thing you know, the day is over, lost in a blur of digital slop. So I've been interested recently in a potentially powerful strategy for pushing back on this distraction monster becoming a more disciplined person. All right, now let me be more specific about my hypothesis here.

Here's what I think is true. If you can cultivate a standout disciplined pursuit in your life, something hard that you can come back to again and again, then this specific discipline will rewire your brain in a general way. so that resisting distractions becomes massively easier. Now this idea is super compelling to me, but is it accurate? And if it is, how do you actually maximize your chances of succeeding with putting it into practice?

Well these seem like the perfect questions to ask in a Monday advice episode of this show. So that is what we're going to do today. Now here's my plan. To help me find answers, I'm going to be joined by my good friend and friend of the show, Brad Stolberg. Brad has an excellent chapter in his most recent New York Times bestselling book, The Way of Excellence, that talks exactly about cultivating discipline in this way.

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