Senin, 12 Juli 2021
0 Forced Discipline
_13.7.2021_
Discipline is amazing. It is one important key of success. Unfortunately it's very difficult for most people especially for children. Let people do what they like, they will adopt self-defeating behavior rather than discipline. If one spend three years in a military school, he will end up being someone totally different in the end of the term. His body and mind will change into stronger and better version he never imagined before. Most people just spend their time on social media for three years and still be the same version of themselves if not slightly worse. Without effort which is sometimes forced by oneself or others nothing great can be built. Lazy people is not happier than diligent people.
It's almost impossible to force oneself to be discipline. It often doesn't work. It's better to set the environment and a system like atomic habit. In nature, nothing is forced, everything is flow, no hurry, but everything is accomplished. Human become the most dominant in the food chain because they force themselves to improve and keep improving all the time. If a person exercises every day for years, he can become very strong far more stronger than normal people who do not exercise. Olympians practice like hell every day for years. Normal people can't compete with them. It's nature versus nurture. I do not know which one is better, to struggle for power or to flow with the nature, no ambition, live like a sage. Sages are happier than billionaires. I believe that true power is understanding as Spinoza said. I used to disagree with forced discipline, but now I'm considering to do it to myself.
In military, they use forced discipline to shape mental toughness. It's the hard and fastest way to be successful in that arena. People need to be forced to do what they do not want to do even if they know it's important for them to do it. I imagine that to live boring life is worse than to live hard life. Therefore striving and working hard for success is still better than sitting down all day long. "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." That quote from Albert Camus describes the best about human condition. People need the struggle. It's better than facing the existential crisis about the true meaning of life. Rather than suffering doing nothing, better suffering doing something, even better if it's something big and powerful. To be able to choose the suffering is freedom.
If the option is whether to suffer from nothing or suffer from struggling to be better, I choose the last. Now I wake up in the middle of the game, this life. I choose my struggling to be better. I am ok to forced discipline for myself. That is the only way to go for me. I'm unwilling to suffer but it will only make me more miserable and suffer even more. Double suffering, suffer from the real and the imaginative one. If I'm willing and accept that life is suffering and I live it without further drama, I suffer only one and who knows that I can be happy in the suffering. Happiness is always short and temporary. It's not the nature of life. At best neutral is the best condition to be experienced.
Nowadays people suffer from more from imagination than from reality. People do not need to work hard using their body anymore. No predators hunt them down. They suffer from social game, like who has more toys to play with, or who has more luxury stuffs, all idea that come from bad or baseless reasoning. People live in abundant life everywhere but very few people are truly happy. They always find their unhappiness in their prosper lives. Socrates said that there is only one good, knowledge and only one evil, ignorance. It's never more relevant than current condition. People must focus more on their effort for perfection both knowledge and their body by exercising. Yet they compete on social media to get more likes and attention. They live in falsehood, they edit their lives in order to get more attention from people they do not even know and care.
I often think how to stop suffering. Marcel Proust said, "We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full." It means that denial won't help. One must go all out to experience this life as far one agrees that life is suffering. Like an athlete who plays the game with all his might. He will enjoy more when he struggle more. It sounds weird but it's true. If I spend more effort to do something, I will end up value it more and like it more. So in short I agree with force discipline. Those who experience it willingly like entering military school or using Ulysses pack or joining a training for competition will end up be happy and powerful. It's necessary for everyone. The only issue is to make the one realize the important of discipline and therefore be willing to take it.
Physical suffering doesn't last long. It's endurable or else will cause death which is also not so bad thing compared to great suffering. Mental suffering is easily cured by the right thinking. Life is easy as long as one can accept willingly that life is suffering and chose to discipline himself to get better and more powerful. Power equals happiness. The true power is understanding. This is how Spinoza describe happiness.
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