Motivation is not fleeting; there are different motivations and different qualities.
If you teach a dog chasing cars to be disciplined, it will still be a dog chasing cars, but just chasing one.
The people you mention fails primarily because it has frivolous/fleeting/misleading/excessive desires.
You can grin your face like Joel and get a six-pack and be happy, until the moment you get distracted and get a beer belly before you even notice it.
In this case you're chasing a misleading objective. Leading, and understanding, a healthy life will let a person getting in shape naturally - and getting a six-pack much easier.
People who keeps doing multiple things and interrupting them, should find a single valuable objective and pursue it, instead of thinking of discipline.
What guys like Joel don't tell is how formal (opposed to substantial) approaches like "be disciplined" burn out people emotionally. And you never ever get to know how they are ten years after.
All of this, of course, in the context of the complexity of human behavior. I don't doubt that some people need discipline, but I definitively give secondary importance.
If you teach a dog chasing cars to be disciplined, it will still be a dog chasing cars, but just chasing one.
The people you mention fails primarily because it has frivolous/fleeting/misleading/excessive desires.
You can grin your face like Joel and get a six-pack and be happy, until the moment you get distracted and get a beer belly before you even notice it.
In this case you're chasing a misleading objective. Leading, and understanding, a healthy life will let a person getting in shape naturally - and getting a six-pack much easier.
People who keeps doing multiple things and interrupting them, should find a single valuable objective and pursue it, instead of thinking of discipline.
What guys like Joel don't tell is how formal (opposed to substantial) approaches like "be disciplined" burn out people emotionally. And you never ever get to know how they are ten years after.
All of this, of course, in the context of the complexity of human behavior. I don't doubt that some people need discipline, but I definitively give secondary importance.