Discipline is the muscle that needs to be worked so that when shit gets heavy, you don't just drop it. Really it's about developing the behavioral pathways in

Discipline is the muscle that needs to be worked so that when shit gets heavy, you don't just drop it. Really it's about developing the behavioral pathways in your brain, your second nature if you will. For me, when something hard comes up, I automatically try to find a way around it or some way to accomplish the goal without dealing with the hard thing. This is great for my creative problem solving skills since I'm able to automatically think outside the box and find workarounds to hard problems that can't feasibly be worked through. However, when there is no workaround, actually convincing myself to do the hard work is extremely tough... my brain keeps automatically pausing and trying to find an easier way around and in those pauses I find it very easy to be distracted and a reason to put off the hard work just a little longer. So yeah, sticking to a studying schedule would be a good way to exercise that discipline.