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A few days ago, 51-year-old male star Hu Bing posted his three meals a day on social platforms.
Breakfast: apples, celery juice, coffee.
Lunch: Sautéed white, sea cucumber, a small piece of potato, sweet potato, corn, a boiled egg.
Dinner: None.
His daily recipes are similar to this, except that sometimes vegetarian dishes are eaten in different ways.
After reading Hu Bing's menu, some netizens joked: "Is this before or after dinner?" ”
"The star is really saving money, a month's food, except for sea cucumbers, not as much as I did for three days, rice, meat are reluctant to buy."
It is true that eating like this is a little too little for ordinary people, but for Hu Bing, who is a model, it may be a necessary condition for him to maintain his figure.
For people like them, standing on the stage radiant is what he enjoys the most, more important than the appetite, for which he is willing to endure. What we ordinary people have not experienced, of course, can not understand.
After so many years of debut, Hu Bing has always maintained a good figure and an unchanged face.
As Teddy Roosevelt said, "With self-discipline, there's nothing you can't do." ”
How many people envy the figure and appearance of others, envy the success and excitement of others.
But when he learned about the hardships and almost cruel self-management behind him, he quickly retreated.
In the muddy and chaotic days, it continues to cost lives meaninglessly.
You will find that those who are self-disciplined to the extreme have a life of opening and hanging.
02
Google has a senior engineer named Matt Katz.
He set himself a 30-day change plan, doing something every day that he hadn't been able to stick to before.
Like what:
Ride a bicycle to work every day, walk 10,000 steps a day, take a photo every day, and write a 50,000-word novel;
Don't watch TV, don't eat sugar, don't play Twitter, refuse caffeine.....
It can be said that this plan is full of challenges, and those who cannot do self-discipline will inevitably be unable to complete it.
But Matt persevered.
After 30 days, the fat otaku engineer of yesteryear was gone, and he began to enjoy cycling to work, and even completed his hike on Mount Kilimanjaro, The highest peak in Africa.
Psychologists have summed up this law:
The early stage of self-discipline is exciting, the middle stage is painful, and the later stage is enjoyment.
But have you ever found that most people linger too long in the middle of self-discipline, the painful period, so much so that they think of pain as self-discipline.
And when you are disciplined to the extreme, you will find:
Self-discipline can bring you peace and enjoyment from the heart.
Because you know that you are changing day by day, and self-discipline has become a habit that goes deep into the bone marrow.
As Kai-Fu Lee said, "Don't indulge yourself and make excuses for yourself." Be strict with yourself, and over time, self-discipline becomes a habit, a way of life, and your personality and wisdom become more perfect. ”
There is a sentence in "The Road Few People Walk":
The first solution to life's problems is self-discipline. Without this link, you cannot solve any troubles and difficulties.
So, how can self-discipline be adhered to to the extreme?
03
The book "Perseverance - How to Cultivate the Habit of Self-Discipline" introduces 2 methods and updates my understanding of self-discipline.
(1) Set specific goals and adhere to the principle of no exceptions
My cousin Xiaorui, who clamors for weight loss every day, has never succeeded.
One of the reasons, presumably, is that there are no specific goals set.
Countless studies have shown that when people define their goals in specific terms, their likelihood of success increases dramatically.
After setting goals, it is necessary to adhere to the principle of "no exceptions".
For example, if you aim to lose 10 pounds in 2 months, you insist on not eating any dessert until you reach your weight loss goal.
If you don't adhere to this principle, then every time you face dessert, you have to decide whether you want to indulge yourself.
In the process of consideration, it will consume energy, and this energy is the key to maintaining perseverance.
Therefore, once you have given yourself the principle of absolute non-exception, you will no longer spend your energy on endless self-entanglement over and over again.
(2) Complete only one task at a time, and do not consume too much perseverance
On the road to changing themselves, many people will set themselves too many goals at once:
For example, practicing the vest line within half a year, passing the XX exam, reading 50 books, watching American dramas without subtitles...
However, perseverance, like a human muscle, produces fatigue. Accepting too many challenges at the same time is often unable to stick with it.
Willpower is like the remaining battery of a phone.
Every morning you are fully charged, and as you keep using your electricity, and finally the power runs out, you have no willpower to speak of.
You use too much willpower on one thing, and if you don't wait for it to recover and invest in the next thing, then you will definitely be exhausted.
Take care to conserve your willpower so that it can be used when it is most needed.
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In the past, I always felt that life was short and should be happy in time.
There is wine in this dynasty and drunkenness in this dynasty, and people do not misbehave teenagers.
It wasn't until later that I gradually discovered that every act of indiscipline would bring you greater pain.
Chronic overeating and lack of exercise can make you have to pay for your health;
Staying up late to play games and brush Weibo brings listlessness and muddled nightmares the next day;
Getting by without a goal and getting by will make you disoriented and increasingly empty.
Don't be a slave to desire, self-discipline can make us live a higher life.
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Author: Little Coconut, life must be swag a little.