Discipline Is Overrated

Let's begin with a quote by Derek Sivers:

“If knowledge was the answer, we’d all be billionaires with six-pack abs”

How many of us "know" stuff?
How many of us can write Ph.D.'s on nutrition, periodization, family, success, money?
Lastly, how many of us actually DID something with that knowledge to produce RESULTS?

Knowledge is only POTENTIAL power, alas we PUT IT into action!

Same is true for discipline.
If discipline was the case - we'll live forever happy with our first partner, we would keep the same job, play the same instrument we played at 1st grade, eat the same food, wear pretty much the same clothes, keep the same training routine and more, till death comes for us.

Or, to put it more precisely, we'd all be soldiers.
Cold. Orders & objectives driven. Disciplined.
Dead.

However it's not the case, does it?
There's something else out there.
Some "Thing" lurks deep in our hearts.
"Thing" that wants to break free.
That "Thing" is longing for something, keeps us awake, unease, in a constant quest for an "Else Than".

This "Thing" is known as Passion for Self-Expression.
This "Else Than" is called Inner Truth.

Hence, the more correct statement would be -
Our Passion for Self-Expression combined with Inner Truth is what drives us into action!

Now Discipline steps into the limelight.
Because without Discipline we'll never make it!
Discipline is a SECONDARY and Assistance quality, you see.

What most of us, even if realize, don't want to admit, is that the Quest for Self-Expression goes through wastelands of hard work, blizzards of self-doubt, storms of naysayers, and an ocean of faith!
To make it alive, we MUST HAVE THE DISCIPLINE to grind through the dark sky to see a blue one.

However, it comes second.
First, we must learn to hear the calling of our hearts.
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From time to time there's a book, a person, or a fad that stirs things up.
People lose their shit and try to be what they aren't, just to prove themselves ONCE MORE that they're deff to themselves and follow the masses to... oh well, we all know how it ends, don't we?

Lend your ear to your heart.
Hear what it, so desperately, trying to tell you for years.
Now go!
Discipline will follow.