How to Become a Disciplined Person

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

If we want to accomplish something in life it usually takes a combination of motivation and consistency - in other words, discipline. Discipline is both essential…and shockingly hard to develop. In today’s episode, Forrest and Dr. Rick explore how we can become more disciplined. They talk about whether discipline came naturally to Rick, and the lessons we can learn from his journey with discipline. Key topics include how to make even frustrating tasks rewarding, the relationship between discipline and self-concept, how to identify key wants, needs, and aspirations, and learning to feel good when we do good. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:30: Rick’s personal history with cultivating discipline 5:45: Finding reward in necessary tasks 17:50: Engaging in your life, and knowing what you really care about 22:35: The power of your self-concept 31:45: Breaking things down into small parts 36:45: Motivation, distress tolerance, and meta-motivation 46:35: Getting out of a negative mindset, and finding what works for you 54:10: Recap I am now writing on Substack, check out my work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/beingwell. Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Zocdoc helps you find expert doctors and medical professionals that specialize in the care you need, and deliver the type of experience you want. Head to zocdoc.com/being and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. OneSkin focuses on delivering more than superficial results for your skin. Get started today with 15% off using code BEINGWELL at oneskin.co. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. Welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the show, thanks for listening today, and if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:15.0	If we want to accomplish something in life, it usually takes a combination of motivation and consistency,
0:21.0	because even a small step every day adds up over time. This is discipline and it's
0:26.0	one of the most useful skills we can develop. It's also shockingly difficult to develop at
0:31.2	least speaking personally. So today I'm joined by perhaps the most difficult to help us figure out the disciplined. You know him, if you've listened to more than one of these podcasts, you probably love him. It's clinical psychologist, Rick Hansen. So Dad, how are you doing today?
0:48.0	I'm good and I am a little embarrassed and a little I figured that intro would probably get you somewhere
0:57.8	in there yeah it's really it's a trip to see you seeing me and so forth. So that said, I love this topic. I think of
1:06.6	discipline as our great friend and so how can we make friends with discipline?
1:12.6	So I hope we can talk about that.
1:14.8	And I think that it's really telling that that's your opening
1:17.9	framework here, you know, the friendship with discipline.
1:20.2	Because I think that for most people,
1:21.4	they just have an association of
1:22.6	discipline with pain. If you just think about that word like what happens. Well
1:27.2	we're disciplined by our parents into doing certain kinds of behaviors and
1:32.0	if we don't we are maybe disciplined by the world
1:34.8	because we didn't do those behaviors
1:36.7	or we didn't learn how to perform them
1:38.3	at a certain level.
1:39.5	And so for most people, they just have a punishment framework
1:42.1	when it comes to discipline, right?
1:43.2	Discipline becomes about how much pain you can endure. This clearly is pretty
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