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Ep. 215: RYAN HOLIDAY: Discipline Is Destiny

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Is There a Target for Disciplined Energy?

I think this goes to the question that you talk about in your books, which is like, I want to do something great, but I don't know what that is. It's not more discipline per se, but exposure to or an avenue to go down that begins to direct that energy and effort towards something constructive or positive. You've got to stop this sort of idea of like, I'm just sitting around and that task or that thing is going to reveal itself to me. But then that's something now that you can, you can, okay, pursue.

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