On discipline

A couple of days ago I wrote about how discipline, like intelligence, might be a vector rather than a scalar quantity.

Here's another thought. The importance you accord to being disciplined at any particular activity is likely to be driven by how important that activity is to you.

If you find yourself missing deadlines, it might just be that deep down, that activity is not truly important to you intrinsically. You have perhaps only convinced yourself of its importance by dint of peer pressure or by what society will see as important or successful.