How to Build Self-Discipline (Udemy.com)
Resist Temptations and Reach Your Long-Term Goals
Created by: Martin Meadows
Last updated December 2016
What you will learn
- how to break your bad habits and form new, positive ones
- how to escape the status quo bias that makes people avoid making changes in their lives
- how to train your self-discipline to become a true master of your willpower
- how to use strategic indulging to improve your diet adherence
How it compares
Against the other 143 rated Udemy courses in Productivity on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 29% of them
- Reviews11,204#11 of 144 by number of reviews
- Length1.5 hoursshorter than 67% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2016earlier than 92% of them
Course Description
How to Develop Self-Discipline, Resist Temptations and Reach Your Long-Terms Goals
If you want to make positive changes in your life and achieve your long-term goals, I can’t think of a better way to do it than to learn how to become more self-disciplined.
Science has figured out a lot of interesting aspects of self-discipline and willpower, but most of this knowledge is buried deep inside long and boring scientific papers.
If you’d like to benefit from these studies without actually reading them, this course is for you.
I’ve done the job for you and researched the most useful and viable scientific findings that will help you improve your self-discipline.
Here are just a couple of things you will learn from the course:
- what a bank robber with lemon juice on his face can teach you about self-control. The story will make you laugh out loud, but its implications will make you think twice about your ability to control your urges.
- how $50 chocolate bars can motivate you to keep going when faced with an overwhelming temptation to give in.
- why President Obama wears only gray and blue suits and what it has to do with self-control (it’s also a possible reason why the poor stay poor).
- why the popular way of visualization can actually prevent you from reaching your goals and destroy your self-control (and what to do instead).
- what dopamine is and why it’s crucial to understand its role to break your bad habits and form good ones.
- practical ways to train your self-discipline. Discover some of the most important techniques to increase your self-control and become better at resisting instant gratification.
- why the status quo bias will threaten your goals and what to do to reduce its effect on your resolutions.
- why extreme diets help people achieve long-term results, and how to apply these findings in your own life.
- why and when indulging yourself can actually help you build your self-discipline. Yes, you can stuff yourself (from time to time) and still lose weight.
Instead of sharing with you the detailed "why" (with confusing and boring descriptions of studies), I will share with you the "how" – advice that will change your life if you decide to follow it.
You too can master the art of self-discipline and learn how to resist temptations. Your long term goals are worth it.
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
11,204 Reviews
Martin Meadows
Martin Meadows is a Wall Street Journal bestselling personal development author, writing about self-discipline and its transformative power to help you become successful and live a more fulfilling life. With a straight-to-the point approach, he's passionate about sharing tips, habits and resources for self-improvement through a combination of science-backed research and personal experience.
Embracing self-control helped Martin overcome extreme shyness, build successful businesses, learn multiple languages, become a bestselling author, and more. As a lifelong learner, he enjoys exploring the limits of his comfort zone through often extreme experiments and adventures involving various sports and wild or exotic places.
Martin doesn't believe in branding himself as an infallible expert (which he is not), opting instead to offer suggestions and solutions as a fellow personal growth experimenter, with all of the associated failures and successes.
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Reviews
By Channakeshava Narasimhaiah on 7/6/2026
These were some practical tips to overcome distraction and stay in focus rather than wasting time in talking some nonsense with prolonged lecture. The way it is structured and delivered is very useful
By Farah Adnan Abdulazeez on 6/22/2026
The way of explanation the book is easy to exist. The heart actually, and there is a lot of examples that make it more easier to apply Minecraft and this kind of examples make the person who listen to drawing a picture of his imagination and make these lessons stuck in the mind I never forget because the way he explained it’s not about just teaching like these kind of technique we learned to learn from our school. It’s like lessons of life.
By Chatiya Saetieo on 6/20/2026
English is my third language but I love to learn for make myself growing. I like this course very easy for me.. easy for understanding and follow step by step thank you so much .
By Kenneth Khalo on 6/18/2026
I learned about self-discipline, the habit loop cue, action and reward. how dopamine affects motivation. I also learned about the important of inhaling and exhaling for focus and self-control.
By Kenneth Hunter on 6/12/2026
Both the overall structure of the course and the individual sections' presentations, are clear and delivered without any distracting details. For example, the references to publication and research are put into an appendix section; they don't interrupt presentation of the principles and techniques.
By Jason Rizza on 5/14/2026
i dont want to be motivated if it makes me act like this instructor, what a loser. Also all the illustrations of the bigger girl wanting to be skinnier were super messed up
By Susan Eapen on 5/7/2026
In theory its good to know these things but in practise thank you for providing tips and reiterating the importance of habit forming.
By Faisal Abdullah on 2/17/2026
This self discipline course was practical and motivating, not just theory. It helped me build real habits and stay consistent in my daily life and work.
By Kedar Kurlekar on 1/6/2026
One of the most important training everyone should have before making any New Year Resolution. Wishing myself to become discipline ;) Thank you for excellent content !!!
By Milind Chati on 12/27/2025
Excellent course. The way Martin has dissected the topic of self-discipline and touched on numerous practical nuances is impressive. I have saved it to revise (to reinforce its learnings) in 6 months again. The only reason, why I avoided giving it a 5* rating is its course delivery through Doodle videos. Personally, I found them distracting and not supporting the learning experience.
By Hormis P Oommen on 11/8/2020
Good explanation.
By Donna Thornton on 11/8/2020
Good course. Thanks
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