In this review I’m only going to discuss one quote that struck me different than the rest of book. I recently wrote a post about this feeling that I will link to here. We know it but we have difficulty internalizing it into our personalities. That’s it, really, and to a degree we all know this. The rest of the book is just context to why you should do that.

To those wondering what the message is, it is simply this: In hindsight, I appreciate that very much. It’s so bluntly repetitive that I couldn’t help but let it get to my head. But what really got to me was that the same message was being punched into my head over and over, without any effort of Willink’s part to pretend as if they were different from one another. Well, having read Discipline Equals Freedom, I can say that the message isn’t anything new. I wondered whether reading Willink’s no-bullshit style of writing would bring a much needed end to my fruitless pursuit of extrinsic solutions, even though I knew full well that the problem (and solution) was very much in my own head and not in the writing of others. Two, he works out every day at 4:00 AM.Īlthough I thought that my adventure with self-help books, especially those that could be summarized with “just do it”, has come to an end, I found myself yet again, unable to overcome my cognitive dissonance.

I heard of Jocko Willink through the Joe Rogan podcast, but all I knew about him were two things. Discipline defeats the infinite excuses that say: Not today, not now, I need a rest, I will do it tomorrow.” (2) The core principle that overcomes laziness and lethargy and excuses. “Discipline: the root of all good qualities. Read on Kindle* page # may be slightly off.

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