I would say much better. Not just writing the book I mean just in general. My oldest was sort of sitting at the kitchen table and he was, you know, like doing some art project or something and I was sitting on the couch. And he said, you know,. dad I'm sorry you lost your job writing books and and I said wait what are you talking about. He realized like in his mind things were normal enough that something had obviously changed at work. You know obviously that was very sweet but also sort of a retroactive indictment of how things had been in the past so I think I have gotten better at it.
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.