# 1170: How to Make Discipline Feel Easy and Achieve Your Ambitious Goals with Jia Jiang Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/1170-how-to-make-discipline-feel-easy-and-achieve-your-ambitious-goals-with-jia-jiang Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/1170-how-to-make-discipline-feel-easy-and-achieve-your-ambitious-goals-with-jia-jiang.md Podcast: [How to Be Awesome at Your Job](https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232) Published: 2026-07-27T06:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/prefix.up.audio/s/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/e/211/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/9ad26183-0a8b-4e5f-bd3d-907e50889f43.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/prefix.up.audio/s/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/e/211/pscrb.fm/rss/p/rss.art19.com/episodes/9ad26183-0a8b-4e5f-bd3d-907e50889f43.mp3?rss_browser=BAhJIg90cmFuc2NyaWJyBjoGRVQ%3D--952c5701c84ad333c69d5faa668f8177091704f0 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/episodes/1170-how-to-make-discipline-feel-easy-and-achieve-your-ambitious-goals-with-jia-jiang Duration seconds: 2931 ## Resource Jia Jiang explains his four-step framework for making discipline and success easier. — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) The problem with hard discipline 2) How to make your goals feel easy and enjoyable 3) Two handy tips to defeat procrastination Subscribe or visit   AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep1170  for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT JIA —  Jia Jiang is an award-winning speaker, entrepreneur, and the bestselling author of Rejection Proof. As a keynote speaker, Jiang has spoken at corporate and industry events and in front of 400,000+ live audiences. His TED talk has millions of views and is ranked in the top 1% among all TED talks. Jiang is also the owner of Rejection Therapy, which helps people overcome their fear of rejection and develop mental resilience. His work has been featured in Time, CNN, Today, Business Insider, The Guardian, Wired, and more. • Book:  Easy Discipline: An Unconventional Way to Achieve Ambitious Things • TED Talk: What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED • Video series: 100 Days of Rejection Therapy • Substack: Easy Ambition — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  • Book: How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie • Book:  Go for No! Yes is the Destination, No is How You Get There by Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz • Book:  Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath • YouTube: Caroline Girvan • Game: Slay the Spire II • Past episode: 016: Going for No with Andrea Waltz • Past episode: 1167: Mastering the Three Elements of Charisma with Olivia Fox Cabane — THANK YOU SPONSORS! —  •  Shopify . Sign up for your free trial at  Shopify.com/awesomepod •  Monarch . Get 50% off your first year with code  AWESOME&nbs… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/episodes/1170-how-to-make-discipline-feel-easy-and-achieve-your-ambitious-goals-with-jia-jiang/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/how-to-be-awesome-at-your-job-956232/1170-how-to-make-discipline-feel-easy-and-achieve-your-ambitious-goals-with-jia-jiang.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.