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If you're not motivated toward the end-goal, what do you apply your discipline to? Achieving a goal starts with motivation and continues thanks to motivation.
by aatd86 4y ago
If you're not motivated toward the end-goal, what do you apply your discipline to?
Achieving a goal starts with motivation and continues thanks to motivation.
Discipline is simply what keeps people on track and guarantees that the intermediary motivation boosts due to progress are reached consistently.
You need both but motivation is more important.
Discipline can be superseded by having fun with the process.
- atoav 4y ago> If you're not motivated toward the end-goal, what do you apply your discipline to? To everything you do. Does a carpenter leave in a crooked nail? Probably not, and that is not discipline, this is just their professional ethos, or pride. Discipline and a certain quality standard needs to be one's modus operandi, not the special sauce you apply in special situations. And before this comes across as over the top, I truly think that there are people who care about quality and being precise no matter what they do — having such a mode of operation will inevitably lead you down a different road in your career, because caring about the wuality of your craft/work makes you care about the result of your work even if you don't care about the object/project in itself. The only way to truly break such people to constantly force them to deliver bad quality.
- aatd86 4y agoThe way I understand it, the carpenter is disciplined here because they are motivated by the end goal. The goal being to create the best product they can to satisfy their clients. Discipline just ensures that this goal is reached. But one should have motivation and remain motivated during the process. Motivation still seems to come first.