PSA of the Day: I have claimed before that discipline is its own reward. The point is to make discipline--generally and in a range of specific activities--an objective regardless of other outcomes. Once that objective is met, other outcomes will begin to manifest themselves, and compound both the motivation to exercise discipline and the rewards for doing so. This way, the exercise isnt tied to a one-off or a tenuous goal, but becomes itself a requirement of and purpose in all action and practice, inter-laced with everything. That may sound a little stodgy: what, after all, is disciplined enjoyment? gaming? intimacy? Focused. Present. Excellent. That may also sound a little ego-centric--oriented on my own experience of the things, actions, persons, the world, myself. But part of the object-discipline is precisely the attention to those things, those others, rather than to self. Laziness, for instance--a disinclination to making effort or accepting discomfort or suffering for a better end--is a selfish impulse, a moving inward, away from the world, not toward it. Discipline counters laziness, and turns us outward.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 00:17:56 +0000
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