He talks about the importance of focus, giving the example of someone who couldn’t focus on conversations because they were too focused on something else - clearly this is not focus! Discipline Is Destiny discusses practicing discipline in the modern world. Using self-restraint to achieve your goals. Also, making small steps — putting one foot in front of the other — and making lots of progress.

Be strict only with yourself. It was said that the true majesty of Marcus Aurelius was that his exactingness was directed only at himself. He found a way to work with flawed people, putting them to service for the good of the empire, searching them for virtues which he celebrated, accepting their vices, which he knew were not in his control. Tolerant with others, he reminded himself, strict with yourself.Constant analogies about writers, sports people, politicians, soldiers, these do not exactly relate to the average human. These aren’t what most of us are, and he also seems to focus exclusively on work rather than personal life - which is really what matters. At the end of our life will we think ‘I wish I had worked more’ or will we think ‘I wish I had worked less and seen my loved ones more’. Ryan’s obsession with work life and ‘leadership’ doesn’t get the balance of life right - it isn’t the key to a good life at all. A workaholic has no discipline. Life is hard. It’s filled with a lot of obstacles and situations that are out of your control. Being self-disciplined about your body isn’t one of them. But the body’s just the first step. In building physical temperance, you’re building something even bigger: willpower. Ultimately, your body’s just a training ground for your mind – which we’ll dive into next. Build on your physical self-discipline to temper the mind.

You might be thinking, Hell, no. Not for me. Self-discipline? More like self-deprivation! Maybe you celebrate or even envy people who take the easy path. You might think they’re having more fun or getting ahead faster. But look more closely, and you’ll realize that all that glitters isn’t gold. Take greed, for instance. It means you’re always on the prowl for more – and so never really enjoy everything you currently have. And not realizing your full potential? That’s a state which breeds pain, misery, and self-loathing.Slow down. There’s a difference between hustling and hurrying. They like to say in the military that slow is smooth and smooth is fast. The saying in the ancient world was festina lente. That is, to make haste slowly. Energy plus moderation. Measured exertion. Eagerness, but under control. “Slowly,” the poet Juan Ramon Jimenez would say, “you do everything correctly.” While I have been disappointed in Holiday’s foray into politics and the amateur practicing of medicine during and after the Covid-19 pandemic, (by insisting that anyone who disagrees with him regarding vaccines is an idiot) his writing remains as solid as ever and seems to have matured. It is quite obvious that he has given himself to his craft and Discipline is Destiny reads accordingly. Ryan Holiday की पुस्तक “ Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control” के बारे में बात करने जा रहे हैं। Eisenhower famously said that freedom is really the opportunity to practice self-discipline. Cicero called the virtue of temperance the polish of life. Without boundaries and restraint, we risk not only failing to meet our full potential and jeopardizing what we have achieved, but we ensure misery and shame. In a world of temptation and excess, this ancient idea is more urgent than ever.