It is the virtue of self-restraint that allows us to persevere in the face of difficulties. When laziness and carelessness attack us, it is self-discipline that comes to our rescue. It empowers us to break old habits and establish new ones.

Habits often enter our lives without our conscious permission. But they grow so strong that they shape our destiny far more than we realise. They cause our brain to latch onto them, to the exclusion of all else including common sense.

Mindsets are mental habits we establish internally, by practicing particular attitudes repeatedly, until they come naturally to us.