Discipline Now…Freedom Later | Pain Is Self-Inflicted Harm
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🗓️ 26 September 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
At a critical moment in The Odyssey, Odysseus tied himself to the mast of his ship because he knew he wouldn’t be able to resist steering the ship toward the beautiful sound of the Sirens. In temporarily giving up his freedom, Odysseus became the first person ever to hear the Sirens without fatally crashing into the rocks surrounding the island where they lived.
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