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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
by skorgu 17y ago
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 17y agoI 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.