This is what nobody tells you about the 5 AM club, the early morning routine explosion, and the entire “discipline is the answer” movement.  It operates on a dangerous assumption: that everyone’s body works the same way, and that if yours doesn’t, you’re not trying hard enough. But that assumption is wrong. And it’s costing people their health, their peace of mind, and ironically, their productivity.

Self-discipline is not willpower. It’s clarity. It’s courage. It’s awareness.

Society has sold you the lie that self-discipline means suffering. That you must force yourself. That you must grind. That you must hate every second until some imaginary prize is handed to you at the end.