The author says practice is crucial to being a great teacher. For him, writing is unusual in that the practice that writing is strange to find one's practice. "For me, the building block of what I do is I read," he says.
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.