Solitaire Square

You have a hand of 5 cards drawn from a dedicated deck of cards numbered 1 to 80. You need to arrange these in ascending order, but you are forced to discard cards from your hand whenever you place a card beside another: the number of cards you must discard is the difference in value. For instance, to place the 40 next to the 37, you must discard 3 cards. Arrange 36 cards in ascending order and win!