Insights: True self-discipline is to be responsible for your own life

Famous Artists Gallery | Chen Banding, also known as Chen Nian, is a painter whose representative works include "Lu Oranges Ripen in Summer" and so on.

The painful process of hard work will eventually lead to your success.

There are some people in life who:

Every day, I like to play with my phone, and hours pass by as I play.

I always want to play games every day. Day after day is wasted and squandered.

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There were many moments when I felt regret, self-blame, and insecurity. I even hated myself for being like this, but I was determined to change.

I have set goals for myself countless times, but I have failed to achieve them every time:

I told myself I would stop watching for another five minutes, but after 50 minutes, I was still looking at my phone. I thought I would stop playing for another half an hour, but after most of the day, I was still playing games.

Sometimes I can’t help but ask myself, why can’t I control myself?

Famous Artists Gallery | Chen Banding

There was once such a question: "Why do most people prefer to suffer the hardships of life rather than the hardships of learning?"

One highly praised answer is: "The pain of life can be numbed by fatigue, diverted by entertainment, and as long as you are still alive, you can just muddle through and eventually get used to it. This can be called dulling. The pain of learning is that you must always maintain a keen sense of touch, clear cognition and abundant emotions. This can be called sharpening."

The reason why some people are afraid of the hardships of studying and working is that every step of growth and progress is difficult, and it may even be a process that is almost self-torture.

For example, when a person is reading, he should avoid the temptation of looking at his phone. When a person is concentrating on work, he should stay away from the hustle and bustle of the crowd.

But the biggest difference between the two lifestyles is that the lifestyle that makes you comfortable at first will eventually make you numb, while the hard work that makes you painful will eventually make you successful.

Famous Artists Gallery | Chen Banding

Although not everyone must be self-disciplined, no one is willing to fall behind, fail, or be worse than others.

Self-discipline may seem painful sometimes, but the short-term pain in front of you can be exchanged for longer-lasting happiness, and you can control your life more freely.

In this world, self-discipline is something that no one else can help you with.

Maybe others can supervise you to work hard and make progress all day long for your own good, but in the end the results are often minimal or even counterproductive.

Because in essence, no one else can be responsible for your life, you must be responsible for your own life.

Only when you know who you want to be, what kind of life you want to live, and what kind of life you want, will your heart be fully awakened, constantly overcome your lazy nature, and constantly temper and improve yourself.

Your choices will determine what kind of life you will live.

Anchor | Tao Ye

Author: Li Siyuan Source: Warm Woman (ID: wennuan-312)

Auditor: Ge Subiao

Producer: Li Daixiang, Wu Weiling

Editors: Li Yongxi, Wang Yixuan, Zhang Huan

Art Design: Zhao Danyang

Interns: Liang Jiayuan, Zhang Congling, Song Shufei, Wu Shiyu

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