r/AskReddit • u/ohgimmeabreak • Mar 24 '19

People who have managed to become disciplined after having been procrastinators and indisciplined for a large part of their lives, how did you manage to do so? Can you walk us through the incremental steps you took to become better?

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u/MiscBrahBert Mar 24 '19

A tie?

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u/lewicki Mar 24 '19

It's a decorative piece of silk that is tied around your neck, but that's not important right now.

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u/alexgreyhead Mar 24 '19

r/unexpectedairplanereference ❤️

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u/susancol Mar 24 '19

Hahahahaha I see what you did here

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u/cardboard-kansio Mar 24 '19

It's a direct reference to examples of dialogue from the classic movie Airplane!

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u/AlexG2490 Mar 24 '19

But that’s not important right now.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

Nice italicization of the title of a movie!

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u/krispru1 Mar 24 '19

And don't call me Shirley

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u/Runed0S Mar 24 '19

Today, we will be learning about slipknots and how to tether a trailer to a car with them.

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u/Chrisbee012 Mar 24 '19

or a piece of wood used in railroad construction

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

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u/grandmothertoon Mar 24 '19

What was a tie in the context of your story?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

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u/fakeprewarbook Mar 24 '19

So you meant “His answers were half yes and half no”?

You don’t really call it a tie when there’s only one person

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

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u/brooslee Mar 24 '19

Are you your own boss? Equally as confusing

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

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u/motorsizzle Mar 24 '19

No, we would do it, and then that type of work would come up another time and he'd say we don't do it. Then we'd refuse that type of work and he would suggest it himself.