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Discipline Is a Skill, Not a Trait (5 Stoic Moves)
I used to think discipline was a character trait, like height or eye colour. Some people had it. I did not. That story is comfortable, and it is rubbish.
The Stoics did not treat discipline as willpower. They treated it as a set of five trainable skills that get stronger with reps and weaker with neglect. In this episode I walk through each one, using some of the best lines Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca and Musonius Rufus wrote on the subject.
The five moves: decide before the moment arrives, do before you discuss, guard what you let in, train in small frictions, and pause before you…
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