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I think it's super important, but maybe should be considered a skill rather than a quality. It's definitely something that people don't get much practice on in
by nulltype 11y ago
I think it's super important, but maybe should be considered a skill rather than a quality. It's definitely something that people don't get much practice on in school or most jobs. If you get some practice, you can improve self-discipline dramatically.
- timr 11y agoAgreed (I had terrible self-discipline when I was younger, but I have a fair amount now), but it's not a skill that can be dialed-up on demand. If you don't have it going into a startup, it's a serious liability. Learning self-discipline while also doing your first startup is probably impossibly hard. Also, most people don't believe that it can be cultivated, which sort of begs the whole question: how do you cultivate self-discipline without the self-discipline to try to attain it? It seems that most people gain it by trying successively harder things over a long period of time.