I think from a parenting perspective every couple nights I'll either read that poem to my children or we'll watch a YouTube video where like a really good narrator reads it. The most heartbreaking poem if you have read if the follow up is his poem my boy Jack. There's not even enough of his son left to bury him they they there weren't even sure where he was buried for a very long time because he was essentially vaporized in the trenches and there is something immensely moving and tragic about if when you think about it that way.
Author Ryan Holiday talks about his book, Discipline Is Destiny, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Holiday discusses the mentor who taught him discipline, the self-control of Queen Elizabeth, the world-champion boxer who counseled the man who defeated him in the ring, and the forgotten Roman emperor who helped make Marcus Aurelius the man he would become.