Discipline is for losers.

“You need to increase your discipline!” – Bad guru.

“Discipline is for losers. Not needing discipline is for winners.” – Truth Cake

Getting yourself into situations and environments where discipline isn’t required is the only long term solution. If your job, spouse, etc is wearing you down all day and you realize you don’t have the “discipline” to work on your side-hustle, it’s because you’ve already been worn down and have no willpower left.

Not needing discipline doesn’t mean everything is easy. It means that you’re in an environment where it’s either far easier to do the right thing, or it’s simply not a choice. Bryan Johnson, the anti-aging guru, doesn’t think about what he wants to eat, nor does he give himself any option on what to do. He’s set up his diet, and it’s no longer a negotiable thing for him in the day. Bryan’s diet may be ‘hard’ to follow, but it exhausts none of his willpower, making him seem disciplined.

An example is someone that wants to stop doing drugs may find it very hard to do so if they’re hanging around friends doing drugs. Bad gurus will say the addict just needs “more discipline,” but I say they will find it far easier to stop doing drugs if they stop hanging around their drug addicted friends.

What’s something you struggled with doing that suddenly became easy to do when you changed your situation?