The Taylor Discipline Podcast: Recent Episodes
The Taylor Discipline Podcast
The Taylor Discipline Podcast is all about helping you to gain mental mastery through daily self-composure. We share stories, frameworks, insights, tactics and strategies necessary to increase your resilience.
In this podcast: the constant state of anxiety and stress that you have become familiar with is unnatural. Learn a powerful lifestyle framework that can help you to protect your psychology & physiology from the demands and inevitable hardships life presents.
CONTENT TO REF: Social Media Addiction & Your Mental Demise | Podcast #223 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-223 9 MIN
"The more you learn about the what and the why, the easier and more effective the how becomes." - Joe Dispenza
In this podcast: how this one common tendency prevents you from accomplishing your goals and how you can get rid of it.
RELATED PODCAST: Mastering The Mundane / Cure Boredom | Podcast # 217 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-217 8 min
"The glory is not in starting something new, as much as it is in making what you've already started work." - Alexa Taylor
In this podcast: how you can stop letting social media use you, but instead, create fixed rules and routines around it. Attention must always be directed and budgeted. Rules and timing things matters. Do not rely on your biology—it cannot be relied on. Discoveries in neuroscience have shown that you get pleasure from potentiality and not actuality. Social media companies know this, and they construct their platforms in a way that encourages compulsive behavior. Potentiality in social media show up as likes, comments, notifications, live streams, etc. Make sure you have rules around when and how long you use it. Extend that practice to any and all areas of your life that are susceptible to abuse.
PODCAST REFERENCED: How Setting Parameters Will Reduce Your Stress | Podcast #221 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-221 6 MIN
“Resisting temptation and instilling self-control are general human goals, and repeatedly failing to achieve them is a source of much of our misery.” ― Dan Ariely
In this podcast: I discuss a quote I heard the other day, and why I think its incredibly powerful. The quote was: "You Get Paid Twice For Doing The Work" What do you think about when you hear that? I think this quote can increase confidence and enthusiasm on your goal pursuit.
MORE PODCASTS ON MINDSET: http://www.taylordiscipline.com/mindset
"The attitude must precede the accomplishment." - Earl Nightingale
In this podcast: Parameters are measurable factors that define the conditions under which a thing operates.The power of having parameters set on your behavior is incredible. There is a common misconception that rules and boundaries are a bad thing; according to psychology, that's completely false...Rules (i.e. parameters) provide more freedom and certainty. It is certainty that tends to bring joy to life. I explain further in today's podcast.
MORE PODCASTS ON PRODUCTIVITY: www.taylordiscipline.com/category/productivity
"Freedom is adherence to self formulated rules." - Aristotle
In this podcast: why you should avoid people who are overly willing to sacrifice themselves for you in your relationship.
MORE PODCASTS ON RELATIONSHIPS @ link = http://www.ichooseselfdiscipline.com/category/audio-posts/
“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.” ― Voltaire
In this podcast: How you can protect your identity and as a result learn to persevere in the face of obstacles and push-back.
RELATED PODCAST: How to Build an Unstoppable Identity | Podcast # 210: https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-210 Podcast Length = 8 MIN
RESEARCH REFERENCED: Eyes on the Prize: The Preference to Invest Resources in Goals Over Means: http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ayelet.fishbach/research/Investing%20in%20Goals.pdf
The process is about doing the right things, right now. Not worrying about what might happen later, or the results, or the whole picture. - Ryan Holiday
In this podcast: why the key to success in life is to master sticking to things even when they at first feel mundane or boring. You can do this by creating novelty. I further in depth in this episode.
RELATED PODCAST: Get Comfortable With Boredom | Podcast # 48 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-48
“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish” ― David Foster Wallace
In this podcast: The importance of cultivating your identity to gain an advantage in your field, and why its more important to "rust out" versus "wear out" to cultivate resilience.
RELATED PODCAST: Why Struggle Is Necessary for You To Be Happy | Podcast #215 http://www.ichooseselfdiscipline.com/podcast-215
"A man must exercise his will and improve it by labour so as to make it conformable to nature and free." - Epictetus
In this podcast: why its important to practice aversion regularly AND how it prepares you for larger aversive circumstances that life presents on its own terms.
RELATED PODCAST: Incessant Struggle Is The Name Of The Game | Podcast #169 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-169
“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In this podcast: In this video: I summarize Jordan Peterson's 2nd rule for life from his book "The 12 Rules for Life"
RELATED PODCAST: Why You Must Prioritize How You Feel About Yourself | Podcast # 140 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-140
“He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.” ― Steven Pressfield
In this podcast: In this video: I summarize Jordan Peterson's 1st rule for life from his book "The 12 Rules for Life"
RELATED PODCAST: Using Movement To Change Your Emotions | Podcast # 145 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-145
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ― Albert Camus
In this podcast: why its important to organize your tactics, strategies, and vision before you actually start pursuing your goals. How your identity is affected by a lack of preparation? The power of preparation in affecting your perception of control...
RELATED PODCAST: How to Think Clearly, Critically, & Creatively | Podcast #133 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-133
QUOTE: “Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
In this podcast: How being accountable to others and holding others accountable can accelerate your success. What is being held accountable all about? When are expectations constructive and when are they destructive? How do you cultivate relationships of accountability?
RELATED PODCAST: The Truth About People Who Support You No Matter What | Podcast # 159 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-159
QUOTE: “No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.” Seneca
In this podcast: we are so socially determined that there is so much power behind forming an identity. Identity has to do with your perception of yourself in relation to others. I talk about how to form an identity that is unconquerable and able to withstand all that life throws at it.
RELATED PODCAST: The “No Hesitation Rule” | Podcast # 198 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-198
“When the pressure is on, you don't rise to the occasion – you fall to your highest level of preparation.” - Chris Voss
In this podcast: the dangers in thinking "normal" exists often prevents you from doing the things that would make life easier for you. You have to cultivate the habit of identifying when old philosophies and ways of operating no longer serve you....
RELATED PODCAST: The Chains Of Habit | Podcast # 63 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/the-chains-of-habit-the-taylor-discipline-podcast-63
“If the abnormal goes on long enough it becomes the normal.” ― Terry Pratchett
In this podcast: the nature of habit and how to get rid of bad ones.
RELATED PODCAST: Identifying Negative Habit Triggers | Podcast # 187 www.soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-187
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Samuel Johnson
In this podcast: the importance of being congruent with your values and your behaviors AND returning to podcasting.
"If you choose to rest comfortably in your ignorance and your refusal to observe things as they are, the accumulation of that ignorance will eventually burn you badly. " - Alexa Taylor
In this podcast: how one factor if not tamed will be the demise of your long term happiness.
RELATED PODCAST: You..Me..He..She..It..Will Never Be Enough | Podcast # 171 http://www.ichooseselfdiscipline.com/podcast-171/
“Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.” ― Albert Camus
In this podcast: a framework to apply to keep in mind in order to increase your sense of abundance and prosperity.
RELATED PODCAST: Unconditional Support Is Harmful | Podcast # 166 http://www.ichooseselfdiscipline.com/podcast-166 length = 5 min
"Any building is a temple if you make it so." - Phil Knight
In this podcast: why its important to control the number of things you are uncertain about that are regulars in your life.
"Our lack of selectivity leads to lack of clarity(certainty about life) which leads to anxiety and self-destruction." - Alexa Taylor
RELATED PODCAST: How to Handle Uncertainty | Podcast # 143 http://www.ichooseselfdiscipline.com/podcast-143/
In this podcast: how to accomplish more things in a day without feeling burned out.
RELATED PODCAST: Why Simplicity Matters for Productivity | Podcast # 196 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-196
"Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers." - Shakuntala Devi
In this podcast: how I use fasting for better productivity.
RELATED PODCAST: How to Use Temptation to Increase Your Perseverance | Podcast # 182 http://www.taylordiscipline.com/podcast-182/
“My own mind is my own church.” - Thomas Paine
In this podcast: how to get the best results from visualization.
“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.” ― Aleister Crowley
RELATED PODCAST: The Reason Why Visualization Works | Podcast #102 http://www.taylordiscipline.com/podcast-201/
In this podcast: what to do when you are feeling tempted to do something out of line with your goals.
"A grand strategist knows the value of preemptive action. " - Robert Greene
RELATED PODCAST: How to Use Temptation to Increase Your Perseverance | Podcast # 182 https://soundcloud.com/taylor-discipline/podcast-182