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207 - Discipline Is Destiny with Best-Selling Author Ryan Holiday

The Verywell Mind Podcast

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The Essence of Discipline

The ability to anticipate future consequences from present actions is really, I think, the essence of discipline. The Stoics talks about how when you do hard work, the good remains, but when you do something bad, the shame remains. And realizing like flashing forward to the consequences, to the hangover, to the refractory period after is really, really important.

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