La disciplina marcará tu destino

To conquer the world, one must first conquer oneself: emotions, actions and thoughts. Eisenhower said that freedom is the practice of self-discipline. Cicero defined the virtue of temperance as the splendor of life. Without limits and self-control, we not only risk falling short of our potential and losing what we have achieved, but we also ensure a life of humiliation and misery. In this new book, Ryan Holiday defends temperance as the most important virtue. Throughout history it has received different names -self-control, discipline...- but they all refer to the same thing: to govern instead of being governed; to set your own limits; to mark your own habits. Every great person in history has practiced this form of self-control, from baseball legend Lou Gehrig to Queen Elizabeth II, writer Joyce Carol Oates, Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and Martin Luther King Jr., minister and leader of the movement for civil rights. In an age of excess and disorder, self-discipline is now more necessary than ever. Do you dare to dig deep to find it? And, more importantly, will you use it? Only with self-discipline can you direct your life towards true fulfillment.