Externalizing Discipline
Controlling your environment is a way to outsource your discipline
Motivation is Overvalued. Environment Often Matters More.
It can be tempting to blame failure on a lack of willpower or a scarcity of talent, and to attribute success to hard work, effort, and grit. To be sure, those things matter. What is interesting, however, is that if you examine how human behavior has been shaped over time, you discover that motivation (and even talent) is often overvalued.
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"Studies on highly successful people have proven again and again that success is not the result of strong willpower and the ability to overcome resistance, but rather the result of smart working environments that avoid resistance in the first place" — Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes