What Sasha Chapin thinks about discipline
Writer and author of All the Wrong Moves; his newsletter covers meditation, relationships and creativity, and he co-runs a perfume line.
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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Sasha Chapin has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingA person cannot expect to find lasting balance between conflicting parts of their psychology.
Their wordsThere's no reason to believe that you will find persistent balance between these conflicting elements of your psychology.
↗Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com 1st of 4 in this piece
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Their wordsOne brand of idiots will claim that pushing yourself is a bad thing, that great things only come without force. (Have they known any genuinely productive people?) Another brand of idiots will sell you on the necessity of constant discipline, of grinding until your last breath. (At some point they will do ayahuasca and have a psychedelic influencer arc.) Clearly neither group of people is describing reality.
↗Without hope of resolutionsashachapin.substack.com 2nd of 4 in this piece