Motivation and attention span restoration - how?

@doomro,
I think the "self-deprecation" needs to be replaced with some other term, but you at least found a workaround around the words not capturing concepts perfectly:


Likewise, with your other post, I would drop the assertion "that will only make the state stronger" (it may or may not be true), but the rest is definitely true. The motivation to self-discipline must arise from within and can't be taught. Now, if one as a child - or at any later point in their life - was exposed to discipline, they would already have the knowledge how to do it and thus will naturally apply it when they come to this understanding. Otherwise there will be a learning process on how-to-do-it as well. Note that this exposure can be done in early childhood - army stuff is unnecessary.

With regards to assertion "state will be stronger if military service is mandatory", Russia made its mandatory service a joke but created en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Guard_of_Russia which, I think, is far less likely to rebel compared to regular army. I mean, state might be even stronger without mandatory military service but a very loyal president's "private army" and other highly loyal and professional military units. Why teach the rest of populace how to use guns, indeed? Although this part of debate (what makes the strongest state and how mandatory military service fits into this equation) is perhaps best tested by time.