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Are you enjoying success in your life right now? What’s the key to maintaining success and keeping it from slipping through your hands?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Discipline Is Destiny<\/em>, Ryan Holiday asserts that self-discipline is essential to maintaining your success in good times. He contends that practicing discipline can help you with four things that come with success: ego, pleasure, power, and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discover how to maintain success through the power of discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

1. Handle Your Ego<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Holiday asserts that to know how to maintain success, you must first keep your ego<\/a> in check<\/strong>. Your success with self-discipline may make you a role model<\/a> that other people want to follow, but don\u2019t expect<\/em> that others will practice discipline just because you<\/em> are doing so. Instead, focus your energies on your own behavior and let others do what they will. Similarly, don\u2019t let your ego convince you that you no longer need self-discipline. The more successful you become, the greater the temptations you\u2019ll face\u2014but if you want to maintain<\/em> that success, you need to continue practicing the discipline that made you successful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, don\u2019t let your ego tie you to habits that no longer serve you. Holiday warns that you may grow so attached to the habits that made you successful that you stick to them\u2014even when they\u2019re not having the same impact they had before. Prevent this by regularly examining your routines and modifying them if they\u2019re no longer working. Otherwise, you won\u2019t be able to keep up with the world as it changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holiday\u2019s Other Views on Ego<\/strong>

In Ego Is the Enemy<\/em><\/a>, Holiday also warns that keeping your ego in check is essential to maintaining success. But rather than focusing on how sticking to certain habits<\/em> can destroy your success, he focuses on how certain traits<\/em> that brought you success can, if left unchecked, rob you of it.<\/a>\u00a0

To avoid this trap, Holiday advises looking out for certain feelings your ego might enhance. First, your confidence may grow into hubris that convinces you that you\u2019re entitled<\/em> to the things you desire (which, although Holiday doesn\u2019t mention this, may also make you feel as though you deserve to indulge in certain temptations). Second, you might start expecting everything<\/em> to go your way as if you control<\/em> the world\u2014or the people around you. Holiday contends you can avoid this fate by remembering that you don\u2019t have a claim on anything that\u2019s not already yours and by recognizing that you\u2019re not the center of the world.\u00a0<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

2. Handle Pleasure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

According to Holiday, another way to practice discipline when you\u2019re successful is to look for opportunities to make your life <\/strong>less<\/em><\/strong> pleasant<\/strong>, such as by immersing yourself in cold water. Regularly experiencing displeasure will make you unafraid of living without the trappings of success, which may be an essential skill if you ever lose your fortune. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Regularly experiencing displeasure by immersing yourself in cold water may also improve your ability to handle stressors like potentially losing your fortune. This is because, as Wim Hof explains in The Wim Hof Method<\/em><\/a>, the cold causes a physiological response that\u2019s identical to your response to emotional stressors\u2014so by training yourself to handle the cold through repeated exposure, you train yourself to handle other kinds of stress<\/a>, too.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the Roman philosopher Seneca possessed great wealth, but he regularly went without\u2014for instance, by sleeping on the ground\u2014to remind himself that he could handle being poor and that losing his wealth was not as terrifying as it seemed. This habit came in handy when he fell out of favor with the emperor Nero: Seneca was able to willingly give Nero all his riches in exchange for his life because he was unafraid of losing the trappings of success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: By highlighting Seneca\u2019s habit of going without, Holiday presents Seneca as a model of Stoic philosophy and Nero as a clear villain. But the two had a complicated relationship: Seneca was famously Nero\u2019s tutor and at times supported Nero\u2019s questionable behavior, such as by lying to the Roman Senate that Nero\u2019s mother was planning a coup after Nero tried to kill her<\/a>.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Handle Power <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Holiday suggests that another way to practice discipline is by learning how to handle power<\/strong>. Contrary to popular opinion, gaining power doesn\u2019t give you extra perks; rather, power is<\/em> the perk. Therefore, you ought to do more<\/em> than the people below you\u2014not less, as most are wont to do. For example, when former Defense Secretary (and then-Brigadier General) James Mattis encountered a soldier performing guard duty on Christmas Day, he sent the soldier home to enjoy the holiday and worked guard duty himself\u2014instead of deciding that his holiday off was a perk of power. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Holiday\u2019s perspective on power aligns with that of Simon Sinek<\/a>. In Leaders Eat Last<\/em>,<\/a> Sinek argues that if you\u2019re a leader, your primary responsibility is to prioritize your subordinates\u2019 needs above your own<\/a>. By doing so, you prove that you see them as people\u2014not as assets you can use. As a result, your subordinates feel as though you support them, which makes them feel safe and thus more willing to collaborate and take the risks necessary for success. Mattis made his soldiers feel that way both through his actions (like working guard duty on Christmas) and through his words<\/a>: One soldier praised Mattis for giving a relatable speech during wartime, saying, \u201cMattis spoke like an enlisted man. He spoke to the enlisted man.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, you must learn to give up power. The most self-disciplined people have control over themselves; as a result, they don\u2019t desire control over others. Moreover, they understand that having too much power often leads to self-destruction\u2014and so they\u2019re willing to give it up. (Shortform note: In David and Goliath<\/em><\/a>, Malcolm Gladwell proposes that having too much power leads to destruction<\/a>: When you have power, you forget that you only have as much power as your subjects are willing to give<\/em> you. If you take an action that your subjects deem unfair or unpredictable, or that makes them feel voiceless, they view your power as illegitimate and grow defiant\u2014which weakens your power and may lead to your destruction.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Handle Money<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Finally, Holiday argues that practicing discipline when you\u2019re successful requires you to adjust your view of money<\/a><\/strong>. Some people believe that if they make enough money, they\u2019ll be able to do whatever they want. They won\u2019t need self-discipline because they can spend freely and ignore others\u2019 opinions. But while money can make your life easier<\/a>, it can\u2019t free you from all<\/em> life\u2019s worries; you\u2019ll still need the self-discipline to handle them. So instead of needlessly striving for money that will let you do whatever you want, strive for an amount that allows you to live in accordance with your purpose<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: In The Psychology of Money<\/em><\/a>, Morgan Housel also warns against relentlessly chasing money, explaining that if you always want more money, you might risk your existing wealth<\/a> for additional wealth you don\u2019t even need. To stop striving for more<\/a>, Housel recommends accepting that somebody else will always have more money than you do<\/a>. Otherwise, you\u2019ll always compare yourself to others<\/a> and never be satisfied.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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