DISCIPLINE YOUR BRAIN

Your mind has to be stronger than your feelings. That single claim organizes everything in this episode. Every poor decision you've made, the speaker argues, had more emotion involved than mind. Your feelings keep you in bed; your mind tells you to get up. The problem is that 95% of our decisions are made by how we feel in the moment, and that is robbing you of opportunity.

The war inside your head

There is a war going on in your head—good versus evil, truth against lies. The person holding you back is you. We have two voices: the soft one that says sleep in, it's okay, and the demon voice that wakes you up in the middle of the night saying you're not good enough, you have to work harder. Most people want to silence that second voice, but it's the one you need to listen to and turn up.

The speaker asks directly: what could you be if you imposed real discipline in your life? If you crank up the volume on that question and max it out, then go get some. But many people know what they want and are not personally willing to do the work it takes to get it. They keep doing what they've done at their current level and expect the next level to arrive. It might require getting up and working out at 3:30 AM. It might require saying no to your friends, changing your diet, moving to another city. Whatever it takes, you have to be willing to do it.