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)