Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control

by Ryan Holiday

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The second book in Holiday's Stoic Virtues series explores temperance as self-mastery, drawing on figures from Marcus Aurelius and Seneca to Queen Elizabeth II and Toni Morrison. Holiday argues that self-discipline is the virtue on which freedom and excellence rest, offering fifty-four short chapters on habits of body, mind, and spirit.

Published:: 2022
Pages:: 352

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In this collection, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control references 4 other books.

It draws on Meditations, Letters from a Stoic and The Daily Stoic.

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Marcus Aurelius is featured as a central historical exemplar of disciplined leadership, with Meditations quoted throughout

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Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

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Seneca's Letters are cited on procrastination, simplicity, and voluntary hardship; his practice of sleeping on the ground is presented as a model

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Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

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Directly extends the daily-practice framework of The Daily Stoic into the virtue of temperance

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The Daily Stoic

by Ryan Holiday

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Builds on Ego Is the Enemy's treatment of self-mastery, now framed explicitly as the cardinal virtue of temperance

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Ego Is the Enemy

by Ryan Holiday

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