How I Rediscovered Discipline Post-Diet Culture & Hustle Culture

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)