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Austin Kleon On Maintaining Healthy Habits, Growing As Parents, And Interrogating The Stoic Virtues

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Golden Mean

For courage in some ways, I see it more as fight or flight. For discipline there's also lack of discipline and like, idol this or whatever. Aristotle uses discipline as the example of what he calls the golden mean. The key to virtue is the right amount of the right thing at the right time in the right place.

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