Good advice but incomplete in my opinion. Discipline(grit) is good, but developing it without a concrete goal is very hard.
He uses push ups as an example and states that it's not for the physical conditioning, but to train his grit. That's his goal. He's chosen this thing and has probably thought for a while about its value, and has come to the conclusion that it is worth the tradeoff is the time and pain of the pushups.
Goals are personal and the same might not work with everyone. If 'developing grit' is some wishy washy thing that an article on the internet told you to do, then you might not stick with the pushups. If your goal is to pass a fitness test for becoming a firefighter or something, and that's something that you really, really want to do, the pushups become easy as long as you hold your ultimate goal in mind.
The most disciplined people in the world got there not because being the most disciplined was their goal, but discipline was necessary for attaining it.
Incidentally it's pretty common to injure yourself with one of those 0-100 exercise programs like push-ups. I gave it a try and screwed up my elbows for a while.
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Good advice but incomplete in my opinion. Discipline(grit) is good, but developing it without a concrete goal is very hard.
He uses push ups as an example and states that it's not for the physical conditioning, but to train his grit. That's his goal. He's chosen this thing and has probably thought for a while about its value, and has come to the conclusion that it is worth the tradeoff is the time and pain of the pushups.
Goals are personal and the same might not work with everyone. If 'developing grit' is some wishy washy thing that an article on the internet told you to do, then you might not stick with the pushups. If your goal is to pass a fitness test for becoming a firefighter or something, and that's something that you really, really want to do, the pushups become easy as long as you hold your ultimate goal in mind.
The most disciplined people in the world got there not because being the most disciplined was their goal, but discipline was necessary for attaining it.
Incidentally it's pretty common to injure yourself with one of those 0-100 exercise programs like push-ups. I gave it a try and screwed up my elbows for a while.