Picture discipline as a muscle. Just as muscles grow stronger with regular exercise, your discipline strengthens each time you choose to engage in a task, especially when it's challenging or when you're tempted by distractions. Sterner guides us to see each moment of choice not as a hurdle but as an opportunity to build our discipline muscle.
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Imagine yourself as a sculptor, with a block of marble in front of you. Your task is to chisel away, bit by bit, to reveal the masterpiece within. This process is not about the final sculpture but about each stroke of the chisel, each decision you make, and how you engage with the material in front of you. "The Practicing Mind" mirrors this approach, emphasizing the importance of focusing on the process rather than being fixated on the end result
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When you have a to-do list with ten to fifteen tasks, including five important ones, the simple discipline of work needs to be implemented:
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