you don't trust yourself because you keep breaking your own promises | episode no. 28
discipline gets misread as willpower — the white-knuckled suppression of everything you want. but the psychology underneath it is quieter than that: it's the repeated act of executing your own standards without negotiating them away. musing 109 unpacks what discipline actually is, why most people are performing it rather than living it, and how identity reframes the fight entirely. musing 110 moves into self-trust — the thing you're building every time you keep your word to yourself — and draws a sharp line between confidence (believing you can) and self-trust (believing you will). if you've…
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