Discipline is

a skill

and skills
can be
taught.

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How businesses
can use
Discipline

to gain
competitive
advantage

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Step 1.
It's all
humans.

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Step 1.
It's all humans.

Humans are creatures

of habit.

Our brains are

uncertainty reducing
machines

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Step 1.
It's all humans.

It wants to automate
and reduce the
cognitive load of
everything

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Step 1.
It's all humans.

So it has more
bandwidth for
important stuff - like
survival, dopamine
and procreation.
Human stuff.

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Step 1.
It's all humans.

Biologically we are an
open book - leverage
that.
Reduce or remove the
cognitive load of tasks
wherever possible

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Step 1.
It's all humans.

Leaving bandwidth
for the stuff that you
actually want people
to focus on and
excel at

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 Step 2.
Generators
not Batteries

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Step 2.
Generators not Batteries.

Most requested
speaker topic in 2022
- Motivation.

It should have been

Discipline.

Here's why.

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Step 2.
Generators not Batteries.

Motivation is sexy, it
sells, the team is
vibing post event, it's
all hoo-rah and
kumbaya
Step 2.
Generators not Batteries.

Until it's not.

It's all humans.

You treated them like
rechargeable
batteries.

And they're
flat again.
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Generators not Batteries.

Teach them to be their

own generators
instead.

Motivation is the
rousing speech, the
heroic act.

It's a feeling.
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Step 2.
Generators not Batteries.

Motivation does not

provide a framework
of behaviour to build
upon.

So you're stuck
recharging over and
over

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Step 2.
Generators not Batteries.

Give them a skillset

that fosters
behaviours driven by
intrinsic drive - not an
extrinsic one.

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 Step 3.

Why
Discipline?

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Step 3.
Why Discipline.

Discipline is the ability

to maintain conscious
sovereignty over your
behaviour and
actions.

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Step 3.
Why Discipline?

As individuals;

brings quiet confidence

greater impulse control
almost biblical patience
tendency to anti-fragility

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Step 3.
Why Discipline?

In Business:
Discipline solves the
Talent vs Consistency
equation

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Step 3.
Why Discipline.

Success cannot
constantly be
predicated on talent.

'Lack of talent' is often

an excuse

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Step 3.
Why Discipline.

Discipline (consistency)
is a binary issue.

You did or you didn't.

Now it's not an excuse

- it's a measurable
performance

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Step 3.
Why Discipline.

Discipline works well

on long term goals,
provides a uniform
lexicon and defends
against distraction.

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Get some.

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Step 4.
Get Some.

For individuals.

Discipline is a singular
act of will repeated
ad-infinitum.

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Get Some.

It requires a clarity of
thought on what you
want and why you
want it.

Then we map the

behaviours that
support that
knowledge.
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Get Some.

As a Business.

Discipline comes from

a belief that the work
is important, valuable
and necessary.

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Step 4.
Get Some.

Businesses must
communicate with
clarity their purpose
and deliverables.

Don't expect people to

align with word
salads.

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Step 4.
Get Some.

Foster consistency of
performance - that's
in the peaks and
troughs.

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Step 4.
Get Some.

Disciplined at work
=
Disciplined at home.

24/7

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Step 4.
Get Some.

That means
boundaries &
priorities in all aspects
of their lives.

You need to be
onboard
with that

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Step 4.
Get Some.

Above all
Discipline drives
performance in the
face of adversity.

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Step 4.
Get Some.

Too often we see

‘talent’ when in actual
fact we are simply
witnessing discipline
executed over a
longer timeframe

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Only it’s not
talent.
It’s discipline.

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 And
Discipline is a
skill.
And skills can
be taught.

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1. You're dealing with humans
So they're malleable and predictable,
teach them how to drive themselves

2.Generators not Batteries.

Get off the motivational recharge
merry go round.

3. Why Discipline
It provides a measurable set of behaviours,
shared lexicon and drives clarity of purpose
from the top

4. Get Some
Skills can be taught,
feelings can only be managed.

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very brief summary.

For a detailed longform

discussion on this topic use
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Or contact me to discuss
how I can help you gain
a competitive
advantage via the skill
of Discipline.

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 Hi, I'm Paul
Watkins

Keynote presenter
TedX Speaker
Author
Father
Adventurer
mountaineer
Entrepreneur
scientist

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 I help teams
navigate from
Motivation to Discipline
and from
resilience to antifragility.

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& a dash of philosophy

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