Discipline Is Destiny
Self-control as what decides who a talent becomes, and the point at which it curdles into vice.
The second cardinal-virtue book, on self-control as the quality that determines what a talent actually becomes. Holiday is careful about the failure mode too, arguing that discipline pushed past its purpose curdles into a different kind of vice — the person who cannot stop is not displaying self-command but obeying a different master.
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