Discipline is destinyThe inscription on the Oracle of Delphi says: 'Nothing in excess.' C. S. Lewis described temperance as going to the 'right length but no further.' Easy to say, hard to practice and if it was tough in 300 BC, or in the 1940s, it feels all but impossible today. Yet it's the most empowering and important virtue any of us can learn. Without self discipline, all our plans fall apart. Here, Ryan Holiday shows how to cultivate willpower, moderation and self

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