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skorgu on Jan 4, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Self-Discipline Is Overrated

At the risk of being tautological: self control is doing what you plan to do. The exact mechanisms of avoiding temptation, laziness, fear, etc are orthogonal to results.

peregrine on Jan 4, 2010 [–]

I believe the author was making the point that as humans we cannot always do what we plan to do. We run out of 'ego' before we run out.

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