How to Build Willpower and Self-Discipline by Robin Sharma

How to Build Willpower and Self-Discipline

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The 5 big "ideas" on Success:

1. Genius is less about genetics, more about practice.
a. Time
b. Deliberate practice (practice done with a view to making everyday better.)
c. Talent hubs
Surrounding yourself with people whose lives you want to be living.

2. Your growth, your progress is not built up around your comfort, your growth is built around your discomfort.

3. It's your natural responsibility to be great.

4. The goal is the process.
The real value of the goal is what the process towards the goal makes of you.

5. The secret of all great success lies not in transformation but in evolution.
Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning success.
Slow and steady consistency wins the race.

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The latest science of will-power:

1. You can build will-power, because it's like a muscle.

Will-power lives in the part of the brain called the pre-frontal cortex.
As you flex the pre-frontal cortex, the grey cells and the neuro connections within the pre-frontal cortex start to grow. And neuro scientists call this neuro plasticity.

2. The more choices you make, the less will-power you will have.

3. Self-Awareness is the DNA of transformation.

Three miracle drugs of will-power based on the science:

1. Meditation

2. Exercise

3. Sleep

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Tactics:

1. Ritualized Refueling.

a. Periodicity
90 mins - walk, meditate, have lunch
b. Every week 1 day no technology, no work, total rest, total recovery.
c. Every 6 weeks take a weekend off or take a week off if you are an entrepreneur.

You will find then that you have much higher amounts of self-discipline by building rest into your days, weeks, and months.

2. Excersice.

3. The vocabulary of 'Can'.

I am a disciplined person.
I have a will of iron, and a mind of steel.

Repeat that 100 times a day so that you start re-programming your self-identity, your self-conscious.

4. Deliberate Minimalism.

"Become the master of the diplomatic 'no'."
Steve jobs, "We are just as proud of the things we said no to as the things we said yes to".
"Build a life of simplicity to avoid ego-depletion. Strip out complexity, build simplicity. Start practicing deliberate minimalism."
"The person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

5. Elevate your associations.
Mirror nuerons.
Emotional contagion.

6. Mess-free Environments
Mess creates stress.
"Clean out your mess & go minimalist."

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