Self-Discipline Transforms our Motivations

George Garrett, a novelist and amateur boxer wrote about a transformation that often takes place for fighters who stick with the sport. Throughout their journey to boxing excellence, in which they must develop significant reserves of self-discipline, something quite remarkable takes place: the fighters lose their initial (unhealthy) motivations to box and have to replace them with something else. Garrett explains:

Most of the fighters I knew were wounded people who felt a deep, powerful urge to wound others at real risk to themselves. In the beginning. What happened was…