You are not a fixed thing.  Growth is possible.

On where 'discipline' is misunderstood, the culture that produced the misunderstanding, and how it became radical to choose to be great. Misunderstanding Discipline Sitting in my doctoral training, I brought up the importance of learning to be disciplined and to discipline the mind. I would beg you to try — to say that word in a room full of people wired to preach compassion, and watch what happens. Half of the room flinches. The other half go quiet. Some look at me as if I a

Technology is designed to give us our time back—to reduce the work and energy required to produce an outcome. And yet, rather than stepping back into the life we imagined we’d lead if we had more time, we expand our working capacity to meet the new limits of efficiency. This is the paradox of busyness: when efficiency increases, work does not shrink—because we keep adding to it.