Skill vs Ability.

What is the governing factor to life? Effort. Self Discipline. Ability, Skill. None of it. All of It.

If we start at Self Discipline, we end with all of the above, the control of emotions can control and focus on specific situation, creating skills, leaving us with abilities. How do we get to Self Discipline, what is that, what is the understanding that nothing in the world is as important as doing what needs to be done? The little details, that are not fun, are the ones that are the most important.

As someone who worries a lot about nothing. I wonder how much of this is not intentional. How much worry is actually the easier thing to do then what needs to be done. What does the effect of worry do to someone. IF you worry and you reward the worry with a pill or a different state of mind that brought the worry to rest. Does that build the tolerance for wanting more.

I Imagine the evil boss that is incharge of a super large corporation and needs to keep everyone happy. What if a magical outside agent shows up and shuts up 100% of the issues he’s working on. I would take the easy button, that is what staples thought us. So this is where the self discipline comes in, understanding the emotions that are coming in rather then moving them to something else. Keeping the focus on the major issue rather then the easy out button.

But this is the catch, you cannot become self discipline over night, it’s an ability, a skill, something that requires work. Constant focus and mental agility to cross over the line that separates the effort full vs effort less objective.

An idea, needs to become a thought, you need to work at the idea until you convinced everyone inside your head, it’s a good idea. What’s the easiest way to invoke change, waiting for everyone else to die. Body rejuvenates over the corse of 5 years, so all you need to do is keep up the new idea for that long. Once’s all old habits have been replaced, over the corse of 10,000 hours, you’re now an expert in the idea you like. It takes 10,000 hours or 5 years at 40Hour week, to become proficient at something. Then you have to keep up with practice to stay there and start to get technical.

So, the moral of the story is to keep up with anything regardless of what you think later on. Keep a log of what you intend to do and keep reading it. It will keep you on the line that you need to cross to get where you wanted to go.