"All self-discipline begins with the body, but it doesn’t just magically happen. It was a skill [[Socrates]] cultivated, a muscle he built, through the challenges he sought out, just as [[Buddha]] spent countless nights sleeping outdoors and wearing rough robes. This treatment is how you a temper a sword, exposing it, for brief instances, to heat and cold, to environments that attack the steel and harden it. **And so the best of us become the best by undergoing the same challenges, by forcing our bodies to change and adapt.**" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[consistency]], [[exercise]], [[self-control]], [[habits]] **Source** -- [[202409150124 - B - Discipline is Destiny]]