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How "micro-discipline" compounds into elite success: "Every single decision that you have in front of you in your life will have a slightly easier and a slightly harder choice. Make the slightly harder one more often than the slightly easier one." "It's micro-discipline that can make it seem as... show more

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Hablemos3 months ago

The neuroscience behind this is ego depletion theory in reverse. Each small hard choice you make doesn't drain willpower, it reinforces the neural circuits associated with self-regulation in the prefrontal cortex. Micro-discipline isn't about motivation. It's about rewiring the default response your brain reaches for when effort is required.

nomad3 months ago

This is very underrated should be mega viral.

DTDavis3 months ago

No, it's largely personality. Some people are made uncomfortable by visual mess. Others aren't.

alextrvlsofficial3 months ago

@hubermanlab So For example, If go any reason anyone wants to choose between having this quick Doritos Bag or , a Longer recepie to mace a tradicional guacamole with boiled potatoes, they should make the potatoes and the guacamole right??!

Victor Bradley3 months ago

Decisions that fit your personality make daily life feel effortless, pleasant, and natural. Decisions that fit your identity provide a sense of purpose and authenticity. 'Make the hard choice more often' is easy to say but for the habit to stick, there has to be a deeper meaning.

GrandKaj3 months ago

I always love the small discipline of just making the bed. I often fallen off my routine but the start of me getting back on it is always making the bed when i get out of bed.

alextrvlsofficial3 months ago

@hubermanlab So FOLKS, Micro-Discipline means, do not assume everything you see on internet is right, make your own WISEEE, research, that means reading proffesional books and EDUCATE YOURSELF

Jadox3 months ago

Wise man I wish more people could understand this

alextrvlsofficial3 months ago

@hubermanlab The REALITY IS, That if any result leads to improvement, the higher is the challenge the better for your self esteem and for you future performance as an individual.

Johnche3 months ago

Disagree with @AndyStumpf77 here — when you build real discipline, those micro-decisions do become reflex. The harder choice gets wired in so deep it stops feeling like 'will' and starts feeling automatic. That's the point of compounding micro-discipline: it rewires your defaults. Not by conscious force forever, but by ingrained habit.

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147,428 views • 11 months ago

Two summers ago, Kara Lawson was speaking to her Duke basketball team. She wanted them to shift their mindset. What followed was 2+ minutes of gold on how to be successful. Here’s Lawson on embracing hard things: “We all wait in life for things to get easier. Think in your own life. I just gotta get through this, and then it'll be easy … It's what we do. We wait for stuff to get easier. “It will never get easier. What happens is you handle hard better. “Most people think life is gonna get easier. Basketball is gonna get easier. School is gonna get easier. It never gets easier. What happens is you become someone that handles hard stuff better. “That's a mental shift that has to occur and each of your brains. If you go around waiting for stuff to get easier in life, it's never going to happen. And then what happens? Oh, it's so hard. Oh, I can't do it. When is it going to be easy for me? Oh, it's easy for other people. “It's not. It's hard. And the second we see you handling hard better, what are we gonna do? We're gonna make it harder. Because we're preparing you for when you leave here. Not just basketball – in life. “And if you think life when you leave college is going to all of a sudden get easy because you graduated and you got a degree, it's not going to get easier. It's going to get harder. “Make yourself a person that handles hard well, not someone that's waiting for the easy. Because if you have a meaningful pursuit in life, it will never be easy. If you're trying to win a championship, if you're trying to have a family … Ask your parents. Do you think it was ever easy for them? “If you want to be successful, it goes to the people that handle hard well. Those are the people that get the stuff they want … If it's hard, don't get discouraged. It's supposed to be. Don't wait for it to be [easy]. It won't. "Make yourself someone that handles hard well, and then whatever comes, you're going to be great.” – My takeaways: 1. This isn’t about sports. It’s about building a business, building a family, building a community, being a valuable citizen and every other meaningful thing in life. 2. “Hard” doesn’t mean “bad.” There can be joy in hard things. 3. There’s a Haitian proverb: “Behind mountains are more mountains.” There’s always another one to climb. 4. What you see on social media is a facade. People make their lives look glamorous online. Behind the screen is a human being struggling through their journey. 5. None of us are immune to difficulty (even if some try to appear that way). 6. “Easy” is convenient, “hard” is fulfilling. What satisfies you in the short-term robs you in the long run. 7. Have you ever heard someone tell a story about how easy a great achievement was? 8. “Easy choices hard life, hard choices easy life” misses the point. We shouldn’t seek an easy life to begin with. 9. Instead, build your capacity for difficult things. Then find joy in the process of handling those things. 10. No meaningful life travels an easy road. ||| Hope this is helpful. Follow me Teddy Mitrosilis for more writing. I also write a weekly newsletter on the process of improvement →

Two summers ago, Kara Lawson was speaking to her Duke basketball team. She wanted them to shift their mindset. What followed was 2+ minutes of gold on how to be successful. Here’s Lawson on embracing hard things: “We all wait in life for things to get easier. Think in your own life. I just gotta get through this, and then it'll be easy … It's what we do. We wait for stuff to get easier. “It will never get easier. What happens is you handle hard better. “Most people think life is gonna get easier. Basketball is gonna get easier. School is gonna get easier. It never gets easier. What happens is you become someone that handles hard stuff better. “That's a mental shift that has to occur and each of your brains. If you go around waiting for stuff to get easier in life, it's never going to happen. And then what happens? Oh, it's so hard. Oh, I can't do it. When is it going to be easy for me? Oh, it's easy for other people. “It's not. It's hard. And the second we see you handling hard better, what are we gonna do? We're gonna make it harder. Because we're preparing you for when you leave here. Not just basketball – in life. “And if you think life when you leave college is going to all of a sudden get easy because you graduated and you got a degree, it's not going to get easier. It's going to get harder. “Make yourself a person that handles hard well, not someone that's waiting for the easy. Because if you have a meaningful pursuit in life, it will never be easy. If you're trying to win a championship, if you're trying to have a family … Ask your parents. Do you think it was ever easy for them? “If you want to be successful, it goes to the people that handle hard well. Those are the people that get the stuff they want … If it's hard, don't get discouraged. It's supposed to be. Don't wait for it to be [easy]. It won't. "Make yourself someone that handles hard well, and then whatever comes, you're going to be great.” – My takeaways: 1. This isn’t about sports. It’s about building a business, building a family, building a community, being a valuable citizen and every other meaningful thing in life. 2. “Hard” doesn’t mean “bad.” There can be joy in hard things. 3. There’s a Haitian proverb: “Behind mountains are more mountains.” There’s always another one to climb. 4. What you see on social media is a facade. People make their lives look glamorous online. Behind the screen is a human being struggling through their journey. 5. None of us are immune to difficulty (even if some try to appear that way). 6. “Easy” is convenient, “hard” is fulfilling. What satisfies you in the short-term robs you in the long run. 7. Have you ever heard someone tell a story about how easy a great achievement was? 8. “Easy choices hard life, hard choices easy life” misses the point. We shouldn’t seek an easy life to begin with. 9. Instead, build your capacity for difficult things. Then find joy in the process of handling those things. 10. No meaningful life travels an easy road. ||| Hope this is helpful. Follow me Teddy Mitrosilis for more writing. I also write a weekly newsletter on the process of improvement →

Teddy Mitrosilis

533,822 views • 2 years ago

What kind of human being one wants to become is a choice you can make. At a certain moment of compulsion, you may think you don't have a choice as to how to act. No, you have a choice. You have to learn to exercise that. What we refer to as Yoga is a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion. #SadhguruWisdom

What kind of human being one wants to become is a choice you can make. At a certain moment of compulsion, you may think you don't have a choice as to how to act. No, you have a choice. You have to learn to exercise that. What we refer to as Yoga is a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion. #SadhguruWisdom

Sadhguru

36,173 views • 1 year ago

James Franklin shares what separates the elite players and teams. "What is the difference between great and elite? It's all the details. It's all the little things." "It's going to class consistently. It's getting to meetings on time. It's having your phone turned off. It's taking notes in every single meeting - not because the coaches told you to. Because you wanna be great." The little things aren't little. They're the difference between great and elite. "We don't ask, we don't settle, we don't make excuses. We don't allow it to happen." "Those little things that have slipped by - it's 1 point last year. It's 1 point this year." The margins are small. That's why every detail matters. "It's not happening anymore. It's not happening anymore." "You guys thought I was a psychopath in the past? You have no idea." Details win games. Standards win championships. You can't consistently win if you don't lock in on the little things.

James Franklin shares what separates the elite players and teams. "What is the difference between great and elite? It's all the details. It's all the little things." "It's going to class consistently. It's getting to meetings on time. It's having your phone turned off. It's taking notes in every single meeting - not because the coaches told you to. Because you wanna be great." The little things aren't little. They're the difference between great and elite. "We don't ask, we don't settle, we don't make excuses. We don't allow it to happen." "Those little things that have slipped by - it's 1 point last year. It's 1 point this year." The margins are small. That's why every detail matters. "It's not happening anymore. It's not happening anymore." "You guys thought I was a psychopath in the past? You have no idea." Details win games. Standards win championships. You can't consistently win if you don't lock in on the little things.

Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness

19,273 views • 3 months ago

🗣️ Mikel Arteta on the possibility of players leaving who have been here a long time: "It's a really, really tough moment, you need to face that reality. But you need to face it with real honesty and transparency because when you are on the other side, that's exactly what you need. "You might not like what you've been told, but if it's truthful, if it's the reality, if it's honest and it's going to help you to make better decisions and have more clarity for the next steps in your career, you have to do that. "These are always very difficult conversations, but they need to be done. It's like when a player doesn't feel that he belongs or he's important, he wants to have a different chapter, I think that communication has to exist and it has to be both ways. "We all know, everything has a start and has an end. When it comes to the end, I think our duty, our responsibility is to do it in the best possible way, maintaining the respect and admiration for the player and the relationship, but understanding that at the end, we need to make football decisions."

🗣️ Mikel Arteta on the possibility of players leaving who have been here a long time: "It's a really, really tough moment, you need to face that reality. But you need to face it with real honesty and transparency because when you are on the other side, that's exactly what you need. "You might not like what you've been told, but if it's truthful, if it's the reality, if it's honest and it's going to help you to make better decisions and have more clarity for the next steps in your career, you have to do that. "These are always very difficult conversations, but they need to be done. It's like when a player doesn't feel that he belongs or he's important, he wants to have a different chapter, I think that communication has to exist and it has to be both ways. "We all know, everything has a start and has an end. When it comes to the end, I think our duty, our responsibility is to do it in the best possible way, maintaining the respect and admiration for the player and the relationship, but understanding that at the end, we need to make football decisions."

Connor Humm

143,296 views • 1 month ago

I love this idea from Jason Fried "Your only competition is your costs." Keep costs low, keep the team small, make stuff you want to use. You don't need the whole world: “A business is very simple. You got to make more than you spend. If you're making more than you spend, then your competition is your cost. That's what you're really in business against, how much it costs you to stay in business. It's not all the other alternatives that are on the market. You can't control what they're going to put out there, what they're going to price it at, all the things they're going to do. They're going to do what they're going to do. What I can control is how much it costs me to run my business, how much I sell my product for, and as long as I make more than I spend, I get to stay in business. And isn't that what this is all about, staying in business? That's what it's all about because I like this. I want to keep doing this. I can't keep doing it if I don't stay in business. I can't keep doing it if I make less than it costs me to make the things that I make. So I'm always thinking about the only competition I really have on an annual basis is to make sure that we make more as a company than it costs us to run the company. That's my real competition.”

I love this idea from Jason Fried "Your only competition is your costs." Keep costs low, keep the team small, make stuff you want to use. You don't need the whole world: “A business is very simple. You got to make more than you spend. If you're making more than you spend, then your competition is your cost. That's what you're really in business against, how much it costs you to stay in business. It's not all the other alternatives that are on the market. You can't control what they're going to put out there, what they're going to price it at, all the things they're going to do. They're going to do what they're going to do. What I can control is how much it costs me to run my business, how much I sell my product for, and as long as I make more than I spend, I get to stay in business. And isn't that what this is all about, staying in business? That's what it's all about because I like this. I want to keep doing this. I can't keep doing it if I don't stay in business. I can't keep doing it if I make less than it costs me to make the things that I make. So I'm always thinking about the only competition I really have on an annual basis is to make sure that we make more as a company than it costs us to run the company. That's my real competition.”

David Senra

103,398 views • 5 months ago

Journalist Whitney Webb exposes the AI-dominated future planned by unelected technocrats, whereby society ends up divided into an elite and lower class—with the latter losing their ability to think or make decisions for themselves via a process called "cognitive diminishment". "If you stop doing mental math and use a calculator all the time, it gets harder and harder and harder to do mental math. And the same is true for any skill that you don't practice." "Because of the convenience of AI and how it's been creeping into our lives... it will become harder and harder and harder—and eventually impossible—for people to do certain things, including make decisions for themselves... and essentially that's their vision." "I don't think people are really reading what a lot of these architects of AI policy are thinking and saying. People are just willingly using it because it's convenient, it's easy, but without really thinking about long-term consequences." "Instead of the machine serving you, you end up serving the machine. And I think that's how we get to digital slavery quite fast, if too many people take that path." "And, you know, their vision... is that this will happen on a society level, and that people will become, as they say, cognitively diminished." "That does not sound positive. That does not sound good."

Journalist Whitney Webb exposes the AI-dominated future planned by unelected technocrats, whereby society ends up divided into an elite and lower class—with the latter losing their ability to think or make decisions for themselves via a process called "cognitive diminishment". "If you stop doing mental math and use a calculator all the time, it gets harder and harder and harder to do mental math. And the same is true for any skill that you don't practice." "Because of the convenience of AI and how it's been creeping into our lives... it will become harder and harder and harder—and eventually impossible—for people to do certain things, including make decisions for themselves... and essentially that's their vision." "I don't think people are really reading what a lot of these architects of AI policy are thinking and saying. People are just willingly using it because it's convenient, it's easy, but without really thinking about long-term consequences." "Instead of the machine serving you, you end up serving the machine. And I think that's how we get to digital slavery quite fast, if too many people take that path." "And, you know, their vision... is that this will happen on a society level, and that people will become, as they say, cognitively diminished." "That does not sound positive. That does not sound good."

Wide Awake Media

127,810 views • 1 year ago

“You can’t manufacture hardship. I think about this all the time. I have all these things I’ve learned throughout life, and I think, how do I inject that into my kids? How do I give them these major life lessons? One thing I do is I always make them figure it out. I tell him, ‘I’m not going to push you up. You have to find another way.’ No matter what problem you’re going to face in life, there’s always an angle that you can take to accomplish what you want.” Josh Duhamel

“You can’t manufacture hardship. I think about this all the time. I have all these things I’ve learned throughout life, and I think, how do I inject that into my kids? How do I give them these major life lessons? One thing I do is I always make them figure it out. I tell him, ‘I’m not going to push you up. You have to find another way.’ No matter what problem you’re going to face in life, there’s always an angle that you can take to accomplish what you want.” Josh Duhamel

Shawn Ryan

67,707 views • 4 months ago