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Originally Posted by andrew112  Abstaining from pleasure and increasing self discipline = success. The more one abstains from pleasure and the more one increases disciplined habits the more successful one becomes. |
Uhhh.... I'm just going to have to disagree with you here.
Increasing Self Discipline = Success, YES!
Abstaining from pleasure to achieve it? Hell No!
Pleasure can take many many forms and to me one of the best things I can do is the thing that I enjoy doing. Another thing, I've gone into a 100% increase self discipline at the cost of pleasure mode over 4 times now. Each time I've burned myself out. The longest I went with no pleasure was 1 week. It took me a week to recover. This last time I learned from my prior mistake but had to make another mistake. I gave myself 2 hours of me time and that seemed to work. I dropped it down to 1 hour and after a week and a half I burned myself out. It also took me a week to recover, just finished recovering from it today actually.
So my belief is that life without any sort of rest or fun is not a life worth living. Nor is it one that I can handle with my personality type (100% I in the DISC test).
If it works for you, great, I think. I just know it will never work for me. Also defeats the purpose of self discipline, doesn't it?