Kenny Wang

I first came across this concept while diving into the world of Jocko Willink who has written a book titled ‘Discipline Equals Freedom: Field Manual’ . I find it to be quite a powerful concept that is prevalent in almost all aspects of my life. The concept is seemingly counterintuitive at first as discipline seems like the very antithesis of what most people would consider freedom. But it is only through discipline and giving your weaker emotions the middle finger on a daily basis, that truly gratifying and meaningful forms of freedom is achieved. To live an independent lifestyle, to detach your overall happiness from the grips of capricious emotions, to find great enjoyment in hobbies, to be free from mediocrity. All these freedoms require some form of discipline in order to earn.   Costs of freedom now   The opposite is also true, the more freedom we grant ourselves in the moment the more we are stripping away some form of freedom from ourselves in the future. Spending mon