The guys survived a month of Discipline Equals Freedom and talk about it

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Week 3 update

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the guys update after the second week of the challenge

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the guys update how everything went the first 5 days

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What is Discipline Equals Freedom Reset

Instructions PDF 

The Pillars 

UP BEFORE THE ENEMY

Determine a time that you want to wake up each day. Make it early enough to accomplish something before the day starts.

GET AFTER IT

Get a workout in each day, even if it’s a brisk walk.

PRIORITIZE & EXECUTE

Identify the top three things you need to get done that day and then execute.

HYDRATE OR DIE

Predetermine how much water you want to consume each day. Make it challenging.

FUEL

Did you eat healthy?

Predetermine the diet or nutritional program you plan to follow. Stick to the plan.

SUGARCOATED LIES

No blatant sugar (cookies, candy, cake, ice cream, donuts, sugary coffees, etc.)

BACK TO THE BOOK

Spend at least 20 minutes reading a book, journaling, or meditating.

REMEMBER

Take a minute to think about something you are grateful for each day.

Our Batteplans

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If two or more people get together they’re conspiring

Popular conspiracy theories

• Chemtrails
• Mandela effect
  • Examples from personal life
• JFK assassination
• Moon landing
  • Retaken photos because of radiation
• 9/11
  • Never let a good crisis go to waste

Conspiracy theories that turned out to be true

• The dead baby project
  • Laughing at crazy conspiracy theories is good fun—until they turn out to be true. Take the conspiracy surrounding “Project Sunshine,” for example. In the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government commenced a major study to measure the effects of nuclear fallout on the human body.
  • Conspiracy: The government was stealing dead bodies to do radioactive testing.
  • The truth: The government was stealing parts of dead bodies. Because they needed young tissue, they recruited a worldwide network of agents to find recently deceased babies and children, and then take samples and even limbs—each collected without notification or permission of the more than 1,500 grieving families.
• The Dalai Lama’s impressive salary
  • Conspiracy: The Dalai Lama is a CIA agent.
  • The truth: Perhaps the reason the Dalai Lama is smiling in all those photos has something to do with the six-figure salary he pulled down from the U.S. government during the 1960s. According to declassified intelligence documents, he earned $180,000 in connection with the CIA’s funding of the Tibetan Resistance to the tune of $1.7 million per year. The idea was to disrupt and hamper China’s infrastructure.
• Project MKultra
  • Project MKultra, aka the CIA’s mind control program, lasted about 20 years and was a sanctioned way for the agency to perform experiments on human subjects. Most famously, they gave people LSD to “unwitting subjects in social situations.” To administer these tests, no medical personnel was available – often, this resulted in subjects being sick for days.
• Tuskegee Syphilis Study
  • The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is one of the most infamous clinical studies in American history. Conducted between 1932 and 1972, it observed the natural progression of syphilis in black men in rural Alabama. Unfortunately, this was not known to those involved in the study – they thought they were receiving free health care from the government.

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What are the 48 Laws

Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature.

Robert Greene as mentor to Ryan Holiday

Ryan (of Daily Stoic, Obstacle is the way, etc.) was mentored by Robert Green. Ryan mentioned in a video how Robert Green taught him to categorize and sort notes he takes from reading.

Prison and the 48 Laws

The 48 Laws Of Power, as well as Greene’s follow-up, The Art of Seduction, are both banned books. The Utah prison system feels that both books have the ability to teach inmates how to manipulate others.

50 Cent and 50’s Law

In The 50th Law, hip hop and pop culture icon 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) joins forces with Robert Greene, bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power, to write a “bible” for success in life and work based on a single principle: fear nothing. 

Favorite laws

Law 1 Never outshine the master

Law 3 Conceal your intentions

Lw 4 Always say less than necessary

Law 5 so much depends on reputation guard it with your life

Law 9 win through your actions, never through an argument

Law 40 Despise the Free Lunch

Law 46 Never appear too perfect

Law 47 Do not go past the mark you aimed for: in victory, learn when to stop

Unliked laws

Law 7 Get others to do work for you, but always take credit

Law 14 Pose as a friend, work as a spy

Law 17 Keep others in suspended terror: Cultivate an air of unpredictability

Law 30 Make your accomplishments seem effortless

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Joel and Eugene review a children’s book

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Controversy

In 2016, Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing the Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16), passed by the Parliament of Canada to introduce “gender identity and expression” as prohibited grounds for discrimination.

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

1. “Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.”
2. “Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.”
3. “Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.”
4. “Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.”
5. “Do not do what you hate.”
6. “Abandon ideology.”
7. “Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.”
8. “Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.”
9. “If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.”
10. “Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.”
11. “Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.”
12. “Be grateful in spite of your suffering.”

Meaningwave

Akira the Don

Self-authoring suite

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“Don’t practice things you don’t want to be good at.”

Controversy

In 2016, Peterson released a series of YouTube videos criticizing the Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16), passed by the Parliament of Canada to introduce “gender identity and expression” as prohibited grounds for discrimination.

12 Rules for Life

1. “Stand up straight with your shoulders back.”
2. “Treat yourself like you are someone you are responsible for helping.”
3. “Make friends with people who want the best for you.”
4. “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
5. “Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them.”
6. “Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world.”
7. “Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient).”
8. “Tell the truth – or, at least, don’t lie.”
9. “Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t.”
10. “Be precise in your speech.”
11. “Do not bother children when they are skate-boarding.”
12. “Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street.”

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

1. “Do not carelessly denigrate social institutions or creative achievement.”
2. “Imagine who you could be and then aim single-mindedly at that.”
3. “Do not hide unwanted things in the fog.”
4. “Notice that opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.”
5. “Do not do what you hate.”
6. “Abandon ideology.”
7. “Work as hard as you possibly can on at least one thing and see what happens.”
8. “Try to make one room in your home as beautiful as possible.”
9. “If old memories still upset you, write them down carefully and completely.”
10. “Plan and work diligently to maintain the romance in your relationship.”
11. “Do not allow yourself to become resentful, deceitful, or arrogant.”
12. “Be grateful in spite of your suffering.”

Meaningwave

Akira the Don

Self-authoring suite

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