Discipline ​Is Destiny 2 csillagozás

The Power of Self-Control
Ryan Holiday: Discipline Is Destiny

The ​instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestseller!

In his New York Times bestselling book Courage is Calling, author Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for a bold and brave life. In this much-anticipated second book of his Stoic Virtue series, Holiday celebrates the awesome power of self-discipline and those who have seized it.

To master anything, one must first master themselves–one’s emotions, one’s thoughts, one’s actions. 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.

In Discipline is Destiny, Holiday draws on the stories of historical figures we can emulate as pillars of self-discipline,… (tovább)

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Portfolio, 2022
344 oldal · ASIN: B09PB1SB72
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Profile Books, London, 2022
312 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9781788166331

Népszerű idézetek

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No matter what you do, practice will make you better.

60. oldal, Practice...Then Practice More

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We live in a time of vulgarity and silliness and immaturity and selfishness. A time of freedom that we have decided is actually license for stupidity, unseriousness, and excess. Look at our heroes: Reality TV stars. Influencers. Professional wrestlers. YouTubers. Demagogues.

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The body is stupid, you have to understand, and our temperament has to save it from itself. […] Discipline is not a punishment, it's a way to avoid punishment. We do it because we love ourselves, we value ourselves and what we do. And we find, conveniently enough, that it also heightens our enjoyment of things as well.

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We must master ourselves unless we’d prefer to be mastered by someone or something else.

Introduction

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In a world of social media, instant gratification, and the celebration of shamelessness, we don't much respect people who establish and maintain boundaries. You know, minding your own business. Setting the rules of engagement. Keeping your private life private. Not letting people drag you down into the muck. Not getting entangled in other people's dysfunctions.

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Today, without irony, people (in considerably less pain – phisically at least) have popularized the phrase doing the work to describe their use of all sorts of experimental psychedelic drugs to address their spiritual or mental malaise.

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The obligation of a champion is to act like a champion.

7. oldal, Ruling Over The Body

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By being a little hard on ourselves, it makes it harder for others to be hard on us. By being strict with ourselves, we take away others’ power over us. A person who lives below their means has far more latitude than a person who can’t.

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Dating back perhaps to time immemorial is the poem and proverb about a horse. „For want of a nail, the shoe was lost,” it begins. And then because of the shoe, the horse was lost and because of the horse, the rider and because of the rider, the message and because of the message, the battle and because of the battle, the kingdom. For want of a nail, the kingdom was lost. […] Because of the little things were ignored, because discipline lapsed, everything was lost.

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