“I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.” YearsWantedFiveDisciplineScientistI RealizedNarrativeFive YearsNeuroscienceLabsUndergraduate Author:Jonah Lehrer
“Nine Inch Nails was an experiment with me in discipline. I realized when I was 23 that I had never really tried anything. Schoolwork came easy to me. I learned to play piano effortlessly. I was coasting. I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100 percent, because I had never reached true failure.” TryingPlayEasyDisciplinePercentI RealizedNineExperimentsPianoInchesNailsSchoolwork Author:Trent Reznor
“I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.” PeopleWayDoeOrderReligiousMilitaryDependsDisciplineShapesI RealizedRoutine Author:Kit Reed
“Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.” WritingTryingActorsActingRolesDisciplineI RealizedBombs Author:Patton Oswalt
“My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to playwriting and directing. Then I spent a couple years working in publishing, doing some freelance journalism for The Village Voice and Musician magazine. I thought my life was going to be as a writer, but then I realized I missed performing, so I got into comedy. It was a nice combination of things I was sort of good at. I was a pretty good writer and a decent actor, but I didn't really like acting, and I didn't have the discipline to be a writer.” WorldActingComedyNiceCollegeCoupleDisciplineMusicianHatredI RealizedJournalismPerformingDecentPublishingHalfway Author:Christian Finnegan
“Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like I stepped into adulthood. I realized, Okay, this is not going to work out. It was frustrating for about a year because I didn't know what to do with the creativity and the discipline that dancing had instilled in me from a very young age. But then I moved to Paris to model, and that was my cultural awakening. Now, I think dancing has been the biggest thing in my life, much more so than modeling, and it still helps me enormously in my work.” ThinkingHelpingAgeCreativityDisciplineBlessingFirst TimeOkayMovedDancingWork OutAwakeningI RealizedRealizationDancerHelp MeBalletAdulthoodDisguiseGoing To WorkFrustratingModelingBallet Dancer Author:Diane Kruger
“I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.” SometimesProblemUsedDisciplineHonorI RealizedUsed To BeRacistEmbarrassment Book:Shrovetide in old New Orleans Source: Shrovetide in old New Orleans