Why does Andy Frisella call discipline a skill rather than a trait?

Andy Frisella argues that discipline and adherence are skills people practise, not gifts they are born with, so they weaken when you stop. Most people already know what to do, he says, and fall short on follow-through. That is his case for repeating 75 Hard every year, and for The Operator Standard, which he says took two and a half years to build and gives members daily tasks and scores.

• Andy Frisella said he once believed discipline was an inborn trait too.
• A co-host worked out that 75 days is about 0.27% of a 75-year American life.

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“They're skills. They're not traits” Andy Frisella · at 30:05 — open in the transcript →

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