discipline of desire is your arms, discipline of action is your legs and discipline of ascent is your abs. I think of these three disciplines as basically muscle groups of your mind. Within each discipline, or each muscle group, there are specific workouts to build up each of your muscles. Given i could literally spend probably all of founders general episodes talking this way of thinking, i'm going to just share one specific workout that stoicism offers and how it changes my perspective of career. within the discipline of desire, there's an exercise called circling the present.