S2 Episode 21: Recovering From Major Life Setbacks

S2 Episode 21: Recovering From Major Life Setbacks

Life has a way of knocking all of us down at some point. Sometimes it comes from our own mistakes and sometimes it comes completely out of nowhere. The difficult truth is that no amount of preparation, intelligence, discipline, or planning can completely protect you from hardship. The real test is how you can gather yourself and get back up after it happens.

S2 Episode 20: Combating Decision Fatigue

Every single day you make hundreds of decisions. Some are small and others are bigger. Each of these choices draws from the same limited pool of mental energy. The more decisions you make the harder it becomes to make good ones. That is decision fatigue in action.

S2 Episode 19: The Influence of the People Around Us

The people around us shape us far more than we realize. Human beings are social creatures and we absorb attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, and habits from the environment around us almost automatically. That influence can either strengthen our discipline or quietly destroy it over time.

S2 Episode 18: Understanding Responsibility

It is important to understand that life is not built around constant personal preference. There are many things we do not get to opt out of simply because we do not feel like doing them. A healthy and functioning life depends on people consistently handling responsibilities that are often tedious and unexciting. Self-discipline begins when we stop asking whether we are in the mood and start asking whether the task needs to be done.

S2 Episode 17: When We Don't Reach Our Goal

We tend to treat goals like they are the only thing that matters. We put the outcome on a pedestal. We tell ourselves that once we reach that point, then everything will make sense. That thinking is understandable, but it is also flawed because it ignores what really changes us. It is not the single moment of achievement that shapes who we are. It is the long stretch of effort leading up to it.