Self-discipline
Discipline is not everyone's favorite word. In popularity, it probably slots somewhere between dentist and diarrhea. But self-discipline makes all the different. life is a trade off instant pleasure and long- team reward.
Self-discipline in the little things- studying instead of TV - leads to a big thing- better qualifications. Self-discipline in the little things- three sessions a week at the gym-leads to a big thing- a healthier life.
Self-discipline in the little things- saving twenty dollars a day instead of blowing it on booze-leads to a big thing - your own apartment.
Something else about discipline: when you are self-discipline, you don't need to get discipline from anywhere else. As a result, you run your own life and people don't tell you what to do.
When you don't have self-discipline, you get it from outside. People who can't discipline themselves often slot into jobs where they take order. People who have absolutely no self-discipline get themselves locked up.
The Lesson 2: THE UNIVERSE HAS NO FAVOURITES
New worlds：
1. self-discipline: the ability to make yourself do sth that you don't like or especially sth difficult or unpleasant.
2. dentist : person whose job is to take care of people's teeth.
3. diarrhea: go to toilet do the big business much more frequently.
4. instant: happening immediately or sth happened in a short time.
New phrases：
1. a trade off:
2. lead to :
3. slot into:
4. lock up
5. instead of
Self-discipline
A culture of rigorous self-discipline is needed to adhere to the simple Hedgehog concept.
Dave Scott is a former triathlete who used to bike 75 miles, run 17 miles and swim 12 miles every single day. Despite this grueling regime, he still had the self-discipline to rinse his daily meal of cottage cheese before eating it to minimize his fat consumption.
Good-to-great companies were filled with people with the same level of diligence and intensity as Dave Scott, working toward the simple strategy, the Hedgehog concept, which their company was following.
Consider Wells Fargo, a bank which understood that operating efficiency was going to be an important factor in the deregulated banking world. They froze executive salaries, sold the corporate jets and replaced the executive dining room with a cheap college-dorm caterer. The CEO even began reprimanding people who handed in reports in fancy, expensive binders. All of this may not have been necessary for Wells Fargo to become a great company, but it demonstrates they were willing to go the extra mile.
A culture of discipline is not the same as a single disciplinary tyrant. Tyrannical CEOs did sometimes manage a temporary spell of greatness for their companies, but they soon crumbled after the tyrant left.
Take for example Stanley Gault, the CEO of Rubbermaid who admitted he was “a sincere tyrant” and expected his managers to work the same 80-hour weeks he did. Once he left, Rubbermaid lost 59 percent of its value in just a few years, as no enduring culture of discipline was left behind.
