Easy Discipline: An Unconventional Way to Achieve Ambitious Things

From the bestselling author of Rejection Proof, a guide to achieving your goals—the easy way—for anyone who struggles with distractions, disorganization, and discipline.

Most people think that because great achievements are difficult, they must also feel difficult. But great accomplishments are rarely achieved through mental toughness. Rather, the most successful people find ways to make hard actions repeatable and enjoyable.

Drawing on stories from his own battles with ADHD and procrastination, as well as twelve epic stories from history and pop culture, bestselling author Jia Jiang outlines the four principles of Easy Discipline—Enjoyment, Artistry, Systems, and Yourself—so you can take hard actions on a consistent basis, and love your work in the process. Each principle offers a mindset of Easy Discipline, as well as powerful, practical tools to turn mindset into action. You’ll learn:

-How to harness the power of the One Action Goal system—and why it’s the only system you’ll ever need
-Why “Changing the Game” can turn dreaded tasks into energizing pursuits
-How to curate your media consumption to educate and inspire you toward your goal, the way developers fine-tune AI machines
-How to create an “Inspiration Index” that concretely ties your efforts (inputs) to measurable outputs
-Why “Repetition with Variation” is the key to success

A love letter to ambitious people everywhere who are disorganized, undisciplined, and distracted, Easy Discipline will give you the mindsets and tools to turn flaws into assets, obstacles into stepstones, and dreams into realities. Work can be fun. Focus can be automatic. And success can be easy.

Rising to notoriety with his most-viewed TED Talk (top 200 out of 60,000), What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection, which became the basis for his bestselling book and #1 audio book, Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection, Jia Jiang has become the world's foremost expert on rejection.

His upcoming book, Easy Discipline - An Unconventional Way to Achieve Ambitious Things, expands on his mission to help anyone overcome obstacles and achieve their dreams and goals by adopting the life systems he's developed over the years.

A top-booked speaker, Jia is the sought-after authority on empowering confidence and resilience, overcoming one's fear of rejection, and daring to be bolder in both life and career. His talks and teaching have become a "must-have" to any organization.

Today, in addition to writing, speaking, and blogging, Jia Jiang has achieved his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. He is the CEO and owner of Rejection Therapy, a company that provides inspiration, knowledge and products to help people overcome their fear of rejection, and train organizations to become fearless and resilient.

Prior to taking the life-altering risk of becoming an entrepreneur, he worked in the corporate world at Dell Technologies and LinkedIn.

Jia's powerful and empowering story has been shared across business and popular media, including NPR, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Guardian, CNN, TIME Magazine, Inc., and others.

He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from Brigham Young University and a Master of Business Administration from Duke University.

“A message of hope for ambitious type Bs everywhere...this how-to for habits lays a framework for success that works with your distracted brain, not despite it.” —Audible Editors Select

“Jiang makes a point too many achievement books miss: if you hate what you're doing, no system will save you. Easy Discipline is a practical, story-rich argument for finding work you actually want to show up for.”—Nir Eyal, bestselling author of Indistractable and Beyond Belief

“Most books about discipline make you feel like you need to try harder. This one makes you realize you've been trying wrong. Jiang flips the entire achievement conversation on its head with a simple idea: what if sustainable discipline didn't have to feel like suffering? Easy Discipline is smart, story-driven book that sticks with you long after you put it down. If you've ever burned out chasing a goal you actually cared about, this book will show you why, and what to do instead.”—Jon Acuff, New York Times bestselling author of Procrastination Proof

“Easy Discipline makes a refreshing case that discipline doesn’t have to feel like a struggle. Jiang shows how to make follow-through feel more natural—and a lot less exhausting.”—Chris Guillebeau, author of Time Anxiety and The Art of Non-Conformity

"There is a better way to achieve your greatest dreams. Not through punishment and force, but through joy, mastery, and systems that align with your deepest nature. Easy Discipline is a rallying cry for every ambitious person who has been taught that suffering is the price of greatness. It's time to reject that story and reclaim the best version of yourself."—Liz Tran, author of AQ and The Karma of Success

"Easy Discipline offers a refreshing reframe of discipline itself—from something you endure to something you cultivate through enjoyment, creativity, and thoughtful systems. It resonates strongly with my belief that you can't compete with someone who's having fun."—Tiago Forte, bestselling author of Building a Second Brain

“Jiang has a knack for taking uncomfortable problems and making them approachable. He did it so well in Rejection Proof that I assigned it in my entrepreneurship classes. Now, in Easy Discipline, he applies his same kind of thinking to discipline itself. Instead of glorifying grind, he makes a simple, convincing case that the work you actually enjoy is the work you’ll stick with. And in a world obsessed with pushing harder, that’s a surprisingly useful shift.”—Aaron Dinin, Duke University entrepreneurship professor and author of the “Learning to Fail” newsletter