​​How To Improve Your Self Discipline - Aristotle (Aristotelianism)

In this video we bring you 5 ways to improve and manage your self discipline from the philosophy of Aristotle. His philosophy is often referenced as Aristotelianism.
Self discipline can be described as endurance in the face of tempting pleasures or endurance in the face of challenging situations which makes you feel like you want to give in to your basic impulses or give up on your goals. To help you learn ways to improve and manage your self discipline, today we’re bringing you 5 relevant teachings from the philosophy of Aristotle:
01. Believe you have free will
02. Strengthen your moral principles
03. Overcome your desires
04. Be temperate in your reactions
05. Practice self discipline daily
I hope you enjoyed watching the video and hope these 5 ways to improve and manage your self discipline from the philosophy of Aristotle will add value to your life.
Aristotle is a Promethean figure in the history of the world, who lived between 384-322 BC, He is considered "the father” of logic, biology, political science, zoology, embryology, of natural law, scientific method, rhetoric, psychology, realism and even of meteorology. He was first a student of Plato, then, when Plato retired, he left the Academia which Plato founded, and he became the tutor of Alexander The Great, and the two other future kings: Ptolemy and Cassander. He established a library in the Lyceum which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls. Unfortunately, only a third of his magnificent work has survived. For example, the treatises “Physics”, “Metaphysics”, “Nicomachean Ethics”, “Politics”, “On the Soul” and “Poetics”, have influenced more than two millennia of scientists and theologians alike, both fascinated by his ideas.
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Achieve your worthy goals. 1. Believe you have freewill; 2. Strengthen your moral principles; 3.Overcome your desires, control your low level impulse to achieve main goal; 4. Be temperate in your reactions. Courage is the mean between fear and arrogance. 5. Practice self-discipline daily. Make temperance in pleasure or pain a habit. Theoritical habit, Behavioral habit, Technical habit.

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I like that. Make temperance and pleasure or pain a habit. Don’t overindulge in your pleasures, but don’t be a victim (of your pain) and learn to bounce back. Controlling your reactions, your feelings and your attitude, or a big part of developing good habits and self discipline. A lot of the reason why we fail to develop good habits or we develop bad habits have to do with what we tell ourselves mentally and emotionally.

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You managed to explain something really hard to swallow in a manner that everyone can understand. Self control is something that everyone must adopt in their daily routines and beeing able to overcone certain habits is a blessing. There is also no better way to learn than from the experience of the people before you!

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Yeah...but I grew up under western philosophy. I'm in my 60s and I'm just beginning to appreciate the history of western thoughts and ideas. I associate Buddha with those men and women who even today wear a brightly coloured flowing gown and either walk around in contemplative silence or smacking tambourines and lost in chant smelling of incense and whom whilst talking to me seem like they're desperate to improve or convert themselves more than me. I prefer sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. However, as I have gotten older, still living on wishful thinking, and having the distain of being a descendant of a colonised savage culture, reading that ancestors of my kind are "untamable, uncivilised, barbaric, cannibalistic, better off dead savages" in order to preserve those ancients' philosophies for the white is might, unconscionable rapacious murderers in my honest opinion in order to facilitate white lives.

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SELF DISCIPLINE IS POWER, NOT A WEAKNESS...

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Practicing self discipline would indeed righteously effect people of the planet to see the true value of themselves and others, In which would reveal true human intelligence and upright behavior.

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This free will of Aristotle does not really sound like Libertarian Free Will but more like a description of the Human Will still present in a deterministic universe. A libertarian free free defender may say that if they had a perfect time machine they could go back to any moment and choose to change what they had previously done. The problem is information. If you go back in time and remember everything that had happened after the event you go back to then the you that is making the new decision is different than the you who made the original decision but in that moment you would create a paradox because without having made that initial decision you decided to return to and learning the lessons that led you to going back and changing that moment you will never learn those lessons and decide to change that moment. The decisions you make are all causally linked based on the events, pattens and perceptions that make you You.

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This video just goes on and on about good and bad, I agree with the foundation of this idea. I hate when people talk about morals and ethics like they are set in stone. Ethics are the study of right and wrong and what is "right" today may not be tomorrow. Morals are how a person frames events through their individual experiences, they can be similar, or they can be completely different from person to person. What I am trying to say is this view of a ethical or moral life is just one interpretation, but everything else is agreeable to me.

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What u need to study after this is the übermensch theory

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Basically have a real good reason to discipline yourself. Don't do it just to do it, have a meaning behind it

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The more reason and moral judgment are involved in the decision process. The more moral and effective our decision would be.

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interesting

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Just before the 10:55 time stamp there was a cartoon drawing of 3 figures. Why was the only "female" drawing, faceless? It is WHY I am here. Because I believe in the HSP "construct", and am trying to adapt to the world, rather than vice versa. The ONLY reason I mention it, is, I ALWAÝS notice things, that other people don't. I need to shape myself to "fit the world". Hence, I am here. I'm sorry for the truly insubstantial "post". THIS IS EXACTLY WHY, I need MORE self discipline:) TY so much, for this upload. Easily digestible, repetitive-while maintaining interest. This is how I happened upon Stoicism, so, why not?

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I always notice things too , a bit too much and am now trying to train myself to notice and observe rather then notice and react with criticism

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Sounds like me. Anyways, figure out what you want, and stop considering others' feelings. Im not saying be selfish, or self centered. Im saying know what you want, and if it isn't morally wrong, go for it without considering how it makes others feel.

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Basically: Just do it!

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10:14 made me look at my screen Irrational people amongus

[@OrkanKurter]

My depression makes me willfully forget about responsibility. And it really feels more like I'm not in control of my own will at all. Rather I'm locked in fear slowly forgetting who or what I am. It's getting scarry as I'm slowly reaching 40, and if nothing changes I doubt I ever will. harsh sad words. But at least I can be honest with my self, and hopefully that is enough for me to end up getting in control.

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Sounds like whatever you are trying to control is too big. Make minor changes. Do something small every day and the momentum you build is inevitable. 2 push-ups a day. Make your bed in the morning. Read 1 page of a book. Things like this on a daily basis will inevitably give you back the reigns over your mind as momentum builds.

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I lack discipline myself. I know I should be putting time in to learn a programming language on a regular daily basis, but I always put it off to watch nonsense youtube videos that doesnt extend my knowledge. I want to learn new things but when I get too bored or the task is too difficult, I "take a break" then end up not pursuing the goal. There are so many distractions these days. This is a good video. But still I feel that after I get what this video is saying and know what I have to do to inprove; I know I am going to regress regardless. Which is a terrible habit I have. Maybe it means I dont care anymore.

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I enjoyed this mini lecture a great deal. The example of "losing weight" as an educated habit of self discipline does not apply to those with fat disorders eg Lipoedema, BTW, but great video.

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I am finally able to close the gap between rapacious colonialism and its' beginnings. Whatever happened to europeans in between eventually brought the english to the top. And it is to the early english especially that I squarely put blame to for the cause for most of the current global antipathy amongst the pigeons.

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What lies in our power to do lies in our power not to do.

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Moral judgments and doing the right thing comes from knowing what is the right thing. The Buddha put it best when he said all suffering comes from ignorance. That's why he gave his disciples the five precepts or so-called morals to live by. Incidentally, 4 of his five precepts are identical to 4 of the 10 commandments. The first, refrain from taking the life of sentient beings, is most important today. Whether we understand this or not, most of today's sad news headlines comes from not following the no Killing commandment and precept. For world peace, we must plant the seeds of peace and immediately turn to the veg diet because everything here is causal and must return back to us.

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I always thought that Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle

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We can believe in our free-wll but is free-will free, actually?

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My favorite take away from Aristotle is.. to spend less time on social media and comparing ourselves to Impossible standards .. 🧏🤔 definitely way ahead of his time!! Way to go thanks for the suggestion

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Goggins

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Goggins " own your own shit"

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Thanks. Yes. Aristotle was great! Alexander his pupil NOT.

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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them? Gauntama shirhatta Buddah Note to quoters, Gautama was only one of 27 buddahs, so do not stop by learning only his teachings but gather and practice all of them. Buddah is a title, not a man. Gautama has good teachings but to embody buddhism one must also practice the entirety of them.

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Aristotle is the kind of brother you don't want to be related with if you grew up as am Asian

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sovereign God substantive choice organizing people of world.

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7:14

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U all sh learn this.i really don't need.good end not necessarily..I always have good personality.are becocs I know wrong person keep pushing me.

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Not sure Alexander the Great was a great example to use. His empire was only so large due to chasing his enemy relentlessly out of vengeance. His army revolted due to the distance away from home and in response, he made them walk home through a desert, despite another, safer, route being available. He was also known for his temper tantrums.

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And he took over land out of greed and power if I'm correct, reminds me of a few modern day "dictator" wannabes..lol

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@@rollandjoeseph Greed and lust for power didn't seem to motivate Alexander much; he passed up many opportunities for both and chose to keep fairly little loot personally. It was glory that Alexander seemed to wish for. And he did pretty good at that, you gotta admit!

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Time stamp

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2:19 _"... believe you have free will ..."_ 1, Yeah. Believing will help. That's nothing about the truth but it feels better. 2, Please, tell me where my free will is in "deciding" whether I feel these words appealing or not ? Whether I feel this interesting or just bs ? Whether I feel it inspiring, encouraging or plain boring ? Maybe just worthless or even false. Where is my free will in the decision ? I will listen, the brain, the nervous system will work, and those will spit the result out. And the result will be the "decision". I cannot change my own "decision". It is decided for me by my most profound functionalities. I can only agree with it. In the best case. There can be situation where you do not even agree with yourself ... :) And still, your decision will be that and you won't be able to change that "decision". (Until you add something else to the equation, for example with getting aware to another component, or just getting into another mood ... :) What "free" will is that where you can change only the components but not the "decision". The decision will be always automatic. It's just a happening. We can only observe it in the best case. And that is the case with all "decisions" over all the lives of all the people. There was never any free will. And while we do not even know what we are, we're only the slaves of this universe.

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Answer for us sloths…… espressso

[@tradways]

Interesting how the motivational language for self discipline in this video require the person to value the opinions of other people both current and future while self awareness and self saticefaction are virtually non existant (in this video)

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[@sarvadamanbanerji1604]

Q1.What is happiness?Is it permanent? or is it just a fleeting reaction? Q2.Who is "you"? Are u a thought or memory?Then who is that who becomes happy or fulfilled? The truth is Me or You is an illusion. So what Aristotle is saying has no basis..it is just strengthening the ILLUSION!🤣 A merry go round!

[@iamnoteric]

Happiness is just a chemical reaction in your brain, and yes it is fleeting. Meaning and joy however, lasts. Yes there is no me and you, but unless you can embody that truth, it remains in the higher realm. You can't say money isnt important when you're dying of starvation, but you could when you're a billionaire. You can't say there is no me and you, when you have not embodied that truth.

[@sertacozkan7523]

Video is nice except the unrealistic white image of aristo. The ancient people of Mediterranean was as dark as todays Egypt or Middle East according to the history which they wrote.

[@CJLabay1]

Lost a lot of respect for Aristotle hearing that he coached Alexander the "great"

[@Nenad-ICXC-Shuput-GFAMMA]

Self discipline = testesteron levels.

[@asmodeus0454]

_Self-discipline_ is spelled with a hyphen as _self_ is used as a prefix. Practise the discipline of correctly spelling and punctuating words if you want to be taken seriously. Anyone who lacks the intellectual capacity to correctly spell and punctuate words has diminished credibility in my book.

[@moon-vs4ig]

The examples given in this video are so wrong...the writer does not understand a word of what aristotle meant! Its not cool to just spout pointless fluff in between quotations. Such a waste of time and so frustrating.

[@labtechtech]

Hah

[@torreyjames937]

Free will? You might want to research that. Well intended maybe but this video is anti-science. Fight me.

[@Asarel77]

The Aristotol shit was funny because he didn’t write all of those books his whole philosophy comes from ancient Egypt read stolen legacy that book will get you right

[@alpersimsek8625]

Free will is an illusion.

[@heavenlypath1065]

How so baba?

[@sambrewster3889]

I disagree to a large extent. An example - i have just recently worked to deliberately change the algorithm in the images i am seeing. While some people feel they are at the mercy of the world around them - i dont

[@One-Ring-To-Rule-Them-All]

@@sambrewster3889 Isn't it fascinating how you CAN even change the way of your thinking? Aristotle's "free will" is like ancient notion of neuroplasticity. Love how it works. I was able to change many of my bad habits, it is actually fun...

[@Princesseva8818]

Free will is a choice in most cases

[@lsk7443]

🤓

[@scorps192]

Just smoke weed all day every day all night every day.

[@rollandjoeseph]

It gets old, believe me, been there done that

[@scorps192]

@@rollandjoeseph you're obviously a lightweight mate.

[@rollandjoeseph]

@@scorps192 ahh thats funny....when I was just a kid like you I might have gave a shit what you said, but today I laugh because I grew up 🤣...you may get there one day, good luck !

[@scorps192]

@@rollandjoeseph 😂 I'm 46, ain't stopping now 😂 fanny.

[@rollandjoeseph]

@@scorps192 lol..good for you..remember, age is but a number , it's your mentality is the age you really are..but don't feel the need to impress me

[@avicohen3035]

This is an old fashioned philosophy. Self deciplin is a self defeating strategy. A child should have self discipline, not an adult. Too rigid a philosophy. Squre.

[@alideep9656]

Thank you