Book Review: Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

Book: Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual

Pages: 199

Copyright: October 1, 2017

Rating out 3.5 of 5

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Summary:

The author, Jocko Willink, a retired 20 year Navy SEAL officer, details the importance of discipline. Jocko argues that discipline is a foundational quality and the basis and the root of all good qualities.

Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual is laid out with two sections: 1) Thoughts and 2) Actions. The discussion surrounding discipline is focused on your physical and mental health.

From my perspective, there are a few key themes:

Discipline is all on you - When you control your self-talk, take action, and continue to improve, you are developing and using your discipline.

Choice = Discipline

Don't fade or make even one excuse. Adopt to use discipline to move forward. Use your Mind for Discipline.

My 3 Take-Aways:

1. Don't give in just once while exercising - always do something - I will procrastinate on procrastinating until tomorrow

2. Create a big enough emotional and logical why for my 12-week goals - that way, I can rely on both when one fails

3. Identify my weaknesses in relationships, roles and identify actions or systems to allow me to improve on all of them.

Overall:

This is an easy read, and I recommend this for anyone who responses to no-nonsense recommendations and wants to improve their self-management. The theme is "This is all on you."