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#541 - Ryan Holiday - Stoicism's Lessons For A Disciplined Life

Modern Wisdom

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Are You the Only One That Can Do It?

We think of discipline as this thing you need to achieve a kind of success, right? You have to be disciplined on the way up. But also, people make you disciplined because there are fewer options. The Stoics would say no one is fit to rule who is not first master of themselves. If you're not self-driven, if you're not enforcing that discipline on yourself, it all falls apart. That's got to determine your day to day priority list or your to-do list. And so, yeah, discipline has to be this kind of internal thing that really stays with you.

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