![]() If you think that you are behind the eight ball for whatever reason, discipline is the great equalizer. It cuts through all the noise and strife. Discipline does not have a belief system. You won’t see it because you’ll be too busy taking action. What you won’t see, at least not at first, is the fact that your own personal evolution has begun to bear fruit. With discipline as your engine, your workload and output will double, then triple. A drive for self-optimization and daily repetition will build your capacity for work and give you confidence that you can take on more. Your insecurities become alarm bells reminding you that doing your chores or homework to the utmost of your ability and putting in extra time on the job or in the gym are requirements for a life well-lived. When you become disciplined, you don’t have time for that bullshit. We see how much fun everyone else is having and feel like the world is passing us by, so we bitch about it and then wonder why we are not where we want to be. Our phones and social media have turned too many of us inside out with envy and greed as we get inundated with other people’s success, their new cars and houses, big contracts, resort vacations, and romantic getaways. ![]() Discipline builds mental endurance because when effort is your main priority, you stop looking for everything to be enjoyable. With discipline as your medium, your life will become a work of art. Allow discipline to seep into your cells until work becomes a reflex as automatic as breathing. Let your hours become days, then weeks, then years of effort. By learning to maximize what you do have, you will not only level the playing field but also surpass those born with more natural ability and advantages than you. This is where you make up the difference in potential. Commit to becoming the motherfucker with a never-ending task list. Let all of them leave the gym early, skip school, take sick days. Even the ones built to keep you the fuck out! It’s so easy to be great nowadays because so many people are focused on efficiency: getting the most for themselves with the least amount of time and effort. It is the skeleton key that can get you past all the gatekeepers and into each and every room you wish to enter. Well, I am proof that rebirth is possible through discipline, which is the only thing capable of altering your DNA. We wish we could be born again as some other motherfucker in some other time and place. We hate our hometown, our teachers, our families, and damn near everything about ourselves. We have fucked-up parents, grow up bullied and abused, or are diagnosed with learning disabilities. A lot of us are born with minimal talent, unhappy in our own skin and with the genetic makeup with which we were born. Believe me, I know all about evil and have dealt with more bullshit than most, but if you catalog your scars to use them as excuses or a bargaining chip to make life easier for yourself, you’ve missed an opportunity to become better and grow stronger. We are ready to be outraged at all times by the evil bullshit of the world. And until you start feeling a sense of pride and self-respect in the work you do, no matter how small or overlooked those jobs might be, you will continue to half-ass your life.Įvery single one of us is just another frog in the soon-to-be-boiling water that is our soft-ass culture. When a half-assed job doesn’t bother you, it speaks volumes about the kind of person you are. Passages marked 'MV' are my comments for context, clarity, or readability. Note: The following are excerpts from Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within by David Goggins. If you enjoy this summary, please consider buying me a coffee to caffeinate my reading sessions. īuy Never Finished: Print | Kindle | Audiobook Learn more about Never Finished on Amazon.
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