A disciplined friend can inspire you and maybe do more for you than my games that you might play with yourself. I'm going to talk to Archie Moore. This is not the most obscure person in the book, but it's one of the more obscure people. When somebody who has been beaten has sort of love or compassion for the person who beat them that's beautiful. And so when you watch someone who could have been resentful could have been angry could have been rooting for the failure of the person who had caused failure in their own life. That's such a beautiful expression of human greatness.
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.