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How I Rediscovered Discipline Post-Diet Culture & Hustle Culture

How I Rediscovered Discipline Post-Diet Culture & Hustle Culture

Soul Gum vor 3 Jahren

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Is discipline a dirty word in your book? Hustle culture and diet
culture have turned a lot of us against discipline. Should
discipline have a place in our lives post-hustle culture? How do
you redirect your discipline towards your passions instead of
your body and your job? How do you unplug from hustle culture
without quitting your job/school? How do you remember your
passions post-burnout?

EPISODE SUMMARY:

I. WHAT IS DISCIPLINE? (4:19)

II. THE #GIRLBOSS ERA (7:02)

a. post-2008 recession: lean in or lose your job (8:09)

b. 2010s: hustle culture and glorification of overworking (11:04)

c. 2014: rise of the #girlboss (15:38)

d. mounting pressure to have a side hustle: MLMs and beyond
(17:35)

e. meanwhile, diet culture reigns supreme (18:26)

III. BUT I DON'T WANNA BE A GIRLBOSS - THE FALL OF HUSTLE CULTURE
(20:58)

a. COVID, the great resignation and mass burnout (24:10)

b. growing anti-diet culture sentiment (25:55)

c. “soft living" trend / rejection of discipline (27:34)

IV. TAKING BACK DISCIPLINE (31:22)

a. my experience with burnout & rejecting discipline (31:52)

b. what life without discipline actually looks like (38:37)

c. non-hustle-y examples of discipline + reframing discipline as
devotion (42:03)

d. but what if I can’t unplug from hustle culture? I have a job
lol (44:19)

e. what if I don’t even remember who I am outside of work/school?
(50:29)

SOURCES:

Merriam Webster (definitions of discipline and
self-control)

Brittanica (definition of will power)

Re: discipline in the Spartan military
(https://tinyurl.com/htb6sfrz/)

Re: hours spent on work and school in the US
(https://tinyurl.com/bdhn7wz9; https://tinyurl.com/yeykvhdp;
National Center for Education Statistics from September 2006)

Re: diet culture in the 2010s
(https://tinyurl.com/2p5cbr89)

Re: weird habits of tech CEOs
(https://tinyurl.com/4uw5tduh)

Re: Michelle Obama criticizing Lean
In (https://tinyurl.com/yxruv83j)

"I don’t wanna be a girl boss” tiktok by @mjwritess
(*corrected username) (https://tinyurl.com/jtbj4zc4)

Elon musk tweets (https://tinyurl.com/5bc272kc)