Motivation vs Discipline

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Note: Хочу сделать серию постов в формате versus, сегодня будет про мотивацию и дисциплину.
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Motivation, broadly speaking, operates on the erroneous assumption that a particular mental or emotional state is necessary to complete a task.

That’s completely the wrong way around.

Discipline, by contrast, separates outwards functioning from moods and feelings and thereby ironically circumvents the problem by consistently improving them.

You don’t wait until you’re in olympic form to start training. You train to get into olympic form.

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Note: Я слышал другую похожую цитату, которая звучит красивее: «You don’t need to be great to start, but you need to start to be great».
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“How do I get myself to feel like doing what I have rationally decided to do?”. Bad.

The proper question is “How do I make my feelings inconsequential and do the things I consciously want to do without being a little bitch about it?”.

http://www.wisdomination.com/screw-motivation-what-you-need-is-discipline/