Jordan Peterson: How to STOP being UNDISCIPLINED.
Summary
TLDRThe script explores the concept of discipline as the ability to make sacrifices for long-term goals, emphasizing the importance of delaying gratification for future benefits. It discusses self-reflection and the willingness to tackle difficult tasks as a means of self-improvement and finding meaning in life. The narrative also touches on the neurological systems behind positive and negative emotions, suggesting that a sense of purpose can mitigate life's sufferings and reduce the risk of addiction by activating the brain's reward pathways.
Takeaways
- 😌 Discipline is the ability to make sacrifices and delay gratification for long-term benefits.
- 🤔 Successful individuals often sacrifice short-term pleasure for long-term goals and security.
- 🧘♂️ Self-reflection and meditation can help identify daily tasks and obligations that contribute to a good day.
- 📝 Acknowledging and addressing the 'stupid things' one does can lead to self-improvement and a better life.
- 🔍 Being honest with oneself, even if it's uncomfortable, is crucial for identifying areas of life that need change.
- 💪 Taking responsibility for one's actions and making necessary changes, no matter how small, builds character.
- 🤯 Avoiding responsibilities can lead to bitterness, resentment, and a negative impact on oneself and others.
- 🌟 Pursuing meaningful goals provides a sense of purpose and engagement in life, which is more sustaining than immediate gratification.
- 🚀 The importance of a goal directly affects the magnitude of the reward experienced while working towards it.
- 🏥 The incentive reward system, driven by dopamine, can be a powerful motivator and can even act as an analgesic and anxiety suppressant.
- 🚫 A lack of purpose or meaning in life can make individuals more susceptible to addiction and negative behaviors.
Q & A
What does the term 'discipline' imply according to the transcript?
-Discipline implies the ability to make sacrifices, delay gratification, and focus on actions that will bear fruit in the medium to long run, even if they are not pleasurable in the short term.
How does the script define success and failure in the context of discipline?
-Success is associated with sacrificing immediate pleasures and delaying gratification, while failure is linked to impulsive actions and not taking responsibility for one's commitments.
What is the significance of self-reflection in the context of the transcript?
-Self-reflection is crucial for identifying areas of improvement and recognizing commitments that need to be fulfilled to achieve a 'good day' and personal growth.
How does the transcript suggest one can start self-organization?
-By improving things around oneself that are self-evidently not good, such as identifying and quitting actions that are making one's life more wretched.
What is the relationship between discipline and the ability to handle life's suffering and malevolence?
-Discipline provides a sense of purpose and meaning, which helps one to be better prepared to handle life's suffering and malevolence by taking on the task of self-improvement.
How does the transcript describe the process of self-improvement?
-Self-improvement involves taking responsibility for one's actions, confronting and addressing issues that cause anxiety, and making commitments to change.
What role does the incentive reward system play in a person's life according to the transcript?
-The incentive reward system, driven by dopamine, provides a sense of meaningful engagement and motivation towards goals, making life more fulfilling and less prone to addiction.
How does the transcript explain the analgesic effect of having a purpose in life?
-Having a purpose in life activates the incentive reward system, which can suppress pain and anxiety, making it easier to endure hardships and maintain focus on long-term goals.
What does the transcript suggest about the importance of setting meaningful goals?
-Setting meaningful goals is important because the magnitude of the reward experienced while moving towards a goal is proportionate to the importance of the goal, leading to a more life-affirming state of being.
How does the transcript connect the experience of positive emotions with the pursuit of goals?
-The pursuit of meaningful goals activates the incentive reward system, which is responsible for positive emotions and provides a sense of progress and fulfillment.
What advice does the transcript offer for dealing with negative emotions and life's challenges?
-The transcript suggests that by taking on the task of self-improvement and finding meaning in one's life, one can better deal with negative emotions and life's challenges by focusing on personal growth and goal achievement.
Outlines
🤓 The Essence of Discipline and Self-Improvement
This paragraph discusses the true meaning of discipline as the ability to make sacrifices for long-term goals over immediate gratification. It emphasizes the importance of delaying gratification for a more secure and productive future. The speaker encourages self-reflection to identify and address personal shortcomings, suggesting that successful individuals are those who bargain with the future and take on the responsibility of self-improvement. The paragraph also touches on the idea that taking on difficult tasks, even when they are not pleasurable, can lead to a more meaningful life and help build character.
💡 The Reward Systems of the Brain and Their Impact on Life
The second paragraph delves into the brain's reward systems, distinguishing between consumatory and incentive rewards. Consumatory rewards are short-lived and related to satisfying immediate needs, while incentive rewards are linked to the anticipation of achieving a goal and are sustained by the neurotransmitter dopamine. The speaker highlights that a purposeful life can reduce the risk of addiction and provide a sense of meaningful engagement. Furthermore, it is suggested that the magnitude of reward experienced while pursuing a goal is proportional to the goal's importance, offering a life-affirming state of being that can alleviate pain and anxiety, and motivate individuals to overcome challenges.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Discipline
💡Gratification
💡Self-organization
💡Honesty
💡Responsibility
💡Humility
💡Character
💡Meaning
💡Addiction
💡Dopamine
💡Pain
Highlights
Discipline is the ability to make sacrifices and delay gratification for long-term benefits.
Successful individuals often sacrifice immediate pleasure for future success.
Discipline involves self-reflection and doing difficult tasks that one's brain identifies as necessary.
Self-organization can begin by addressing self-evident issues in one's life.
Honest self-reflection can reveal actions that negatively impact one's life and others.
Taking responsibility for one's actions is a key aspect of self-improvement.
Humility is demonstrated by doing small, necessary tasks that no one will recognize.
Improving one's character can help mitigate the effects of life's suffering and malevolence.
Neurological systems for negative and positive emotions are separate but interact with each other.
The incentive reward system, driven by dopamine, is linked to moving towards worthwhile goals.
Lack of purpose in life can make individuals more prone to addiction.
The magnitude of reward experienced is proportionate to the importance of the goal.
Having a purpose can provide analgesic effects, reducing the perception of pain.
A sense of purpose can also quench fear and increase motivation and focus.
The importance of addressing self-evident negative aspects of life to prevent complacency.
The role of self-improvement in providing life meaning and resilience against suffering.
Transcripts
if you're disciplined in fact that's
almost what discipline means that
discipline means that you're capable of
making sacrifices because
you're not disciplined if you just
do something you want more rather than
something that you're doing that's not
discipline that's maybe that works and
great if your life is working out that
way great man but that isn't that isn't
discipline discipline is when you want
to do something right now
and instead you think no i'm going to
forestall my gratification maybe forever
but certainly for a very long period of
time medium to long period of time and
you concentrate on something that you
think will bear fruit in the medium to
long run and so you look into the future
and you decide that
by making today a little less
impulsively pleasurable shall we say
you'll make tomorrow a little bit more
secure and productive and then you
actually do it too and that's difficult
you know when people watched
the successful succeed
and the unsuccessful fail for thousands
and thousands of years and we thought it
over and we drew a conclusion the
successful among us
sacrificed the successful among us delay
gratification the successful among us
bargain with the future
you wake up in the morning and you think
okay
this could be a good day whatever that
means you don't know right what a good
day is but maybe you've had a couple and
they're not so bad and so maybe you
think you could have another one but you
don't know and you think okay
you ask yourself and this is meditative
what is it that i need to do today so
that this would be a good day
and your brain will tell you it'll say
you know that bill that's hiding under
five pieces of paper on your desk you
should haul that sucker out and pay it
or there's something you're avoiding
that makes you anxious that your brain
will pick on right away and say you have
to do these whatever
number of commitments today and if you
do them then you fulfilled your
obligations and if you listen to
yourself
and do the difficult things that
yourself tells you to do
the idea is you don't have to compute
the utopian future because following
what it is that you tell yourself to do
every moment is the best path to
whatever the best outcome is
so you might say well at least you can
start your self-organization
by improving those things around you
that are self-evidently not good and
that's easy man anybody can do this you
can sit down for 10 minutes say well i'm
going to be honest with myself like
that's a horrible thing to do i'm going
to be honest with myself okay i'm
probably doing a dozen stupid things
that i could quit doing that are making
my life
less
more wretched and also the people around
me and so you think okay what are those
things and you know if you really want
to know you have to want to know
and you're going to get a bunch of
information that you don't want to hear
but you'll know it's true and you
already knew it in some sense
and then you can ask yourself okay that
sucks and it's miserable and it's not
very self-affirming um
is there one of those things i would
i would be willing to do something about
that i would actually do something about
you know that i could do something about
that i would do something about
which is also another horrible question
because as soon as you get an answer to
that then you have a responsibility
right it's like oh god i have to go do
that and it's something you don't want
to do
you don't want to do it that's why
you've been avoiding it and so then it's
right in front of you and it's like it's
some little trivial horrible thing that
you're not going to get a pat on the
back for no one's going to give you an
award for it and but then you go do it
that's kind of humility i would say and
then
you keep doing that well anybody can do
that and that's associated with these
great evils you know
in this way that we've already described
it's like you're constraining you're
improving your character and you're
constraining
the kinds of actions and perceptions
that you have that are going to make you
sick of life and work against it because
failure does that that's the cane story
it's like
keep screwing up man see what happens if
you think that isn't going to make you
bitter
and if that isn't going to make you
vengeful and if that isn't going to make
you work to hurt people around you or at
least not to help them which is the same
thing then
you're just not paying attention
everyone knows that's true
so
well that's responsibility right and
then so you take on this great task of
putting yourself together it gives you
life meaning and that also helps you be
buttressed against the fact that there's
lots of suffering in life and there's
lots of malevolence it's like yeah true
man absolutely it's worse than you think
even
but
you can do more about it than you think
you know there are systems neurological
systems that underlie your experience of
negative emotion and there are
neurological systems that underlie your
experience of positive emotion and there
are separate systems they obviously
interact but they're separate systems
so
but the positive emotion system well
there's two of them but one of them sort
of kicks in when you get something that
you want so you know you're hungry and
you eat and that feels good and so
that's kind of the simple one
but there's a more sophisticated one
that i think is even more active in
people
um and it's the one that tells you that
you're moving forward towards something
worthwhile
and that's actually the one that gives
people that sense of meaningful
engagement in their life on a
moment-to-moment basis
so
and and it's also
it's also something that doesn't have to
go away like if you're hungry and you
eat well that's good but it's over and
then you're on to the next thing right
it's not exactly sustaining it's just
necessary that's called consumatory
reward by the way this other reward
system is incentive reward and the
incentive reward system works on
dopamine this neurochemical dopamine
which is also the neurochemical tracts
that opiates and cocaine and
amphetamines the drugs that people
really like to abuse alcohol often for
some people
activate and so you might say if you
don't have enough meaning in your life
then you're more prone to addiction and
that's definitely the case even with
rats if you take a rat you put him in a
cage by himself and he has nothing to do
and then you give him access to cocaine
he'll get addicted to the point where he
won't do anything but take cocaine but
if you throw the rat back in with a
bunch of other rats and he gets to do
rat things then it's very hard to get
him addicted to cocaine and so the
purposeless rat is prone to addiction
well it's the same with human beings now
here's a corollary to that which is
really cool
so the magnitude of the reward you
experience
as you're moving towards a goal is
proportionate to the importance of the
goal
so that means the more important the
goal you pick
the more possibility there is for
the kind of reward let's say it's really
a state of being that is life affirming
and it is directly life affirming in
that you know like if you're in a
football game and you're and it's an
important football game and maybe you
break a finger and you know normally
that's that's a problem it hurts and
you're going to stop doing whatever
you're doing but if you're right in the
middle of the game
then you'll be so amped up on this
reward system that it's analgesic it
stops the pain it also suppresses
anxiety so
if you have a purpose then
it's analgesic it takes some of the pain
out of life it's very positive in that
it motivates and energizes you and
focuses you and makes you able to
remember and pay attention and it it
quells fear no one says well in a
hundred thousand years who the hell
cares so why does it matter no one says
that they listen to that not if they're
human they listen to that story and they
think that's not good it's like that's
right that's not good it's not good you
should do something about that because
it's it's
it's it's self evidently not good
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