In this episode, we discuss the difference between motivation, discipline and obsession, and why they behave like three different fuel sources rather than three settings of the same one. We get into the 2017 research on self control that found the most disciplined people are not the ones winning daily fights with themselves, they are the ones who face fewer fights in the first place. We talk about discipline as obsession residue, the two kinds of passion that look identical from the outside and run in opposite directions underneath, the red flags that show the needle has gone too far, and Craig Alexander asking himself at the back end of his career whether he was being selfish. Keegan lands on where he sits on the spectrum, and leaves you with the question he could not shake: if the thing disappeared tomorrow, would you still know who you are.

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#129 Craig Alexander: Harder Than Ironman The episode Keegan quotes in this one, and the clearest example of the leash being held.

#151 Lachlan Jones: The Discipline Blueprint

#199 Eddie Hearn: What It Takes to Be Great, "You Will Never Outwork Me"

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