Save the sprint for the end

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 15 May 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discipline is at least partly about restraint

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0:00.0	Yo, it's Baratunde, and I'm back with a fourth season of my podcast, How To Citizen.
0:06.4	We're focused now on how to create a dope culture of democracy.
0:10.7	To help, we got people like Coach Steve Kerr.
0:13.6	Connection between people is really powerful for sure.
0:17.3	And sci-fi writer and activist Adrian Marie Brown.
0:20.6	Eventually, you recognize that what we're trying to shift is culture.
0:24.3	I promise, it's the freshest take on civics you've ever heard.
0:28.4	Join us.
0:30.6	Listen to How To Citizen With Baratunde on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast,
0:35.4	or wherever you get your podcast.
0:43.5	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:49.3	Good morning.
0:51.2	This is Laura.
0:53.2	Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
0:56.6	Today's tip is that discipline is as much about restraint as it is about persistence.
1:04.6	When you've got a big project, work in a slow and steady way.
1:10.4	You can always sprint at the end.
1:15.2	I have long loved the section in Jim Collins' book Great by Choice,
1:19.7	where he talks about how explorer Rold Aminson reached the South Pole ahead of his contemporary
1:25.6	Robert Falcon Scott.
1:27.9	While Scott had his men marched to the point of exhaustion and good weather and stayed in
1:33.2	the tent when it was terrible, Aminson pursued a steady pace of 15 to 20 miles per day.
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