Ryan Holiday
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That's the virtue.
Not that if you eat this or don't eat that and you go for the workout or don't go for the workout, you get fired or you get
mocked.
The point is that you don't have to do it and you choose to do it.
That's the virtue of discipline.
It's the idea that no one can do wisdom for you.
As you said, there's no cheat code.
There's no hacks.
It's something you have to do.
You have to possess.
And to me, I mean, obviously the story's anachronistic in that, you know, he's this guy owning slaves.
It's hard to relate.
And then you go, well, I'll just ask ChatGPT.
The timelessness of this idea that like, oh, I don't have to know it.
I don't have to figure it out.
It doesn't matter anymore because there's this new invention.
There's this thing I figured out that allows me to get something for nothing, that allows me to get to skip ahead.
That is the human experience in a nutshell.
People thinking they can get knowledge, that you can learn something without earning it.
It never works.