Lack of discipline is the reason behind every single L I’ve taken in life

many forms of “discipline” are just avoidance of difficult feelings. we think we’re doing the “hard thing” by striving and overworking and punishing ourselves, but it’s just a way to maintain some distance from our deepest fear: that without all that striving, we’re not enough

I spend a buttload of time paralyzed by the massive gap between my ambitions and my reality. I want to be a bestselling author… but sometimes I stay frozen in bed for hours a day. I want to be a beast at coding… but I’m often on the verge of tears whenever I code. ___LINEBREAK... See more