Jordan Peterson: How to STOP being UNDISCIPLINED. (2023)

Introduction

In this video, Jordan Peterson is giving you advice on how to stop being undisciplined. We all have moments when we don't feel like getting after it or we are basically lazy. That's normal. But when that habit is slowly eating away your life then it's time to be concerned. In this video, Jordan Peterson will give YOU ADVICE ON HOW TO OVERCOME SUCH DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR.

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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! You.