Speaker 1: You have been deceived ever since you learned to walk.
Speaker 1: You were taught that discipline was just a matter of willpower,
Speaker 1: of trying harder when you felt lazy, of waking up
Speaker 1: early and making lists, as if the simple act of
Speaker 1: organizing the surface would solve the rot that exists in
Speaker 1: the foundations. But the truth is brutal discipline is not
Speaker 1: about random effort, nor about waking up with magical motivation
Speaker 1: every day. Discipline is war, internal war, and in this war,
Speaker 1: either you govern your mind like a prince governs his army,
Speaker 1: or you will be crushed by your own weaknesses. Most
Speaker 1: people live like decaying cities, invaded by impulses, sabotaged by
Speaker 1: their own disorder, easy victims of the first temptation that appears.
Speaker 1: They do not realize that without strategic discipline, there is
Speaker 1: no freedom, no strength, no victory. Those who do not
Speaker 1: impose order on themselves are constantly enslaved by chaos. Niccolo Machiavelli,
Speaker 1: one of the most misunderstood thinkers in history, knew this
Speaker 1: better than anyone. While many talk about being positive or
Speaker 1: believing in oneself, Machiavelli looked at human nature with the
Speaker 1: surgical coldness of someone who knows that the world does
Speaker 1: not reward the well intentioned, It rewards the disciplined. It
Speaker 1: rewards those who, even under pressure, even surrounded by disorder,
Speaker 1: can maintain control. For Machiavelli, discipline was not a moral
Speaker 1: choice or a beautiful ideal. It was a matter of survival.
Speaker 1: Without discipline, both the king and the peasant were doomed
Speaker 1: to the same fate ruin. And here is the cruelest part.
Speaker 1: The moment you fail to govern yourself, you hand over
Speaker 1: the keys to your own destiny to someone else, to
Speaker 1: another force, to any impulse that blows stronger than your
Speaker 1: weak will. Life like a throne is never empty. Either
Speaker 1: you occupy your place with absolute dominion, or you will
Speaker 1: be governed. If you think discipline is waking up early
Speaker 1: only on the days you feel motivated, forget it. If
Speaker 1: you think that wanting is enough to stay firm, forget it.
Speaker 1: This video is not for those seeking comfortable advice. This
Speaker 1: video is for those who are ready to take on
Speaker 1: the brutal responsibility of shaping themselves like a craftsman shapes
Speaker 1: a sword. True discipline requires constant vigilance, strategic planning, relentless
Speaker 1: self control. It demands that you build an internal fortress
Speaker 1: where luck has no power, where chaos finds no gaps.
Speaker 1: Today you will understand why Machiavelli treated discipline as a
Speaker 1: state secret, a non negotiable foundation of power. And if
Speaker 1: you have enough courage to apply what you will learn here,
Speaker 1: you will never be the same again. Machiavelli did not
Speaker 1: write to console fools. He wrote to train strategists to
Speaker 1: arm the minds of those willing to face the harsh
Speaker 1: reality of power. When we consider discipline from a Machiavelian perspective,
Speaker 1: we must forget any childish idea of will power based
Speaker 1: on motivation. For Machiavelli, discipline is structure. It is strategy,
Speaker 1: It is survival. Without it, even the most promising of
Speaker 1: men becomes easy prey for the forces he cannot control.
Speaker 1: In the Prince, Machiavelli states, for just as the good
Speaker 1: order of the militias is the origin of good order
Speaker 1: in the states, discipline is what enables a city or
Speaker 1: an army to withstand adversities. He makes it clear. Without discipline,
Speaker 1: neither cities, nor armies, nor individuals can endure external order.
Speaker 1: The stability of a state. The strength of a government
Speaker 1: is merely a reflection of internal order. There is no
Speaker 1: lasting conquest for those who are slaves to their impulses.
Speaker 1: There is no real authority for those who do not
Speaker 1: govern themselves. What Machiavelli saw with a clarity that still frightens,
Speaker 1: is that discipline is not an accessory for times of peace.
Speaker 1: It is a permanent armour. Discipline, for him, is the
Speaker 1: element that keeps a ruler steady in the face of
Speaker 1: the temptation to act out of anger, fear, or vanity.
Speaker 1: It is the ability to maintain strategy even when everything
Speaker 1: around cries out for impulsive decisions. An undisciplined prince, Machiavelli said,
Speaker 1: is more dangerous to himself than any external enemy, because
Speaker 1: his ruin will not come only from adversaries. It will
Speaker 1: come from the very internal gaps he refused to seal.
Speaker 1: Acting without calculation, moving without preparation, reacting without reflection, These
Speaker 1: are the sure paths to downfall. Discipline, therefore, is not
Speaker 1: something practiced when convenient. It must be cultivated as a
Speaker 1: rigorous habit, like the constant maintenance of a wall that
Speaker 1: protects against inevitable decay. Machiavelli saw human beings as inherently
Speaker 1: vulnerable to the corruption of desire, pride, and fear. Only
Speaker 1: through relentless vigilance over oneself would it be possible to
Speaker 1: resist this force of self destruction. And do not think
Speaker 1: this applied only to rulers. Every individual who wishes to
Speaker 1: be master of their destiny must apply this same mental discipline.
Speaker 1: If you do not govern your mind, it will be
Speaker 1: governed by circumstances, emotions, and external impulses. And those who
Speaker 1: are governed by others, for Machiavelli, are already politically dead.
Speaker 1: They just have not yet fallen. But Machiavelli's thought goes
Speaker 1: even He compares the human spirit to a battlefield where
Speaker 1: discipline is the only line between triumph and annihilation. It
Speaker 1: is precisely this metaphor of the internal war and how
Speaker 1: it must be fought with the discipline of a true commander,
Speaker 1: that we will explore in the next part. Imagine an
Speaker 1: army marching to war, without training, without strategy, without obedience
Speaker 1: to orders. What do you see? An announced slaughter, an
Speaker 1: inevitable massacre. No spontaneous bravery can save soldiers who do
Speaker 1: not know how to resist panic, who cannot endure fatigue,
Speaker 1: who do not master their own instincts in the face
Speaker 1: of terror. For Machiavelli, this was exactly what condemned mercenary
Speaker 1: armies and fragile states the absence of true discipline. In
Speaker 1: his discourses on the First Decade of Livy, Machiavelli writes,
Speaker 1: the orders of a wise captain are not obeyed by
Speaker 1: undisciplined soldiers. This statement is more than a military observation.
Speaker 1: It is a profound psychological principle. If your mind is
Speaker 1: like an undisciplined army, no conscious command of yours will
Speaker 1: have effect. You can make resolutions, set goals, promise changes.
Speaker 1: But if your thoughts, emotions, and impulses are not trained
Speaker 1: to obey, they will desert at the first challenge. You
Speaker 1: will find yourself sabotaging your own decisions, betraying your own ambitions.
Speaker 1: Military discipline, for Machiavelli, was the essence of victory, allowing
Speaker 1: the few to overcome the many, the weak to surpass
Speaker 1: the strong. A small but disciplined army was infinitely superior
Speaker 1: to an undisciplined crowd. The same applies to your internal world.
Speaker 1: A few, well trained thoughts are more powerful than thousands
Speaker 1: of conflicting desires. Real power does not lie in the
Speaker 1: quantity of ideas you have, but in the mastery you
Speaker 1: exercise over them. Now reflect, with brutal honesty. How many
Speaker 1: times have you failed, not due to a lack of talent,
Speaker 1: but due to a lack of control. How many promises
Speaker 1: made to yourself have you broken, not due to a
Speaker 1: lack of ability, but by allowing fatigue, fear, or doubt
Speaker 1: to take command. Just as a foolish general loses battles
Speaker 1: before even fighting, you lose the war of life the
Speaker 1: moment you abandon mental discipline. Military discipline is waking up
Speaker 1: every day with the same determination, no matter how you feel.
Speaker 1: It is obeying your strategies, not your fleeting emotions. It
Speaker 1: is acting even when the body aches, even when the
Speaker 1: soul falters, because victory belongs only to those who do
Speaker 1: not retreat in the face of the harshness of the path.
Speaker 1: Machiavelli knew that battles are not won merely by brute force,
Speaker 1: but by relentless order, constant vigilance, and preparation that anticipates
Speaker 1: the unforeseen. The same applies to your mind. The modern
Speaker 1: world glorifies feelings and despises discipline, and that is exactly
Speaker 1: why so many live defeated, always seeking blame outside themselves.
Speaker 1: But now you know, if you want to master your life,
Speaker 1: you will have to be the general of your own
Speaker 1: inner army. Train your mind as Machiavelli would train his troops,
Speaker 1: without mercy, without excuses, without concessions, because in the battlefield
Speaker 1: of existence in discipline is a slow death sentence. And
Speaker 1: if discipline is what builds vertuo, that inner strength capable
Speaker 1: of shaping one's own destiny, then we need to understand
Speaker 1: how Machiavelli opposed vertuo and fortuna skill and luck, discipline
Speaker 1: and chaos. This is what we will explore in the
Speaker 1: next part, how to conquer luck through the relentless building
Speaker 1: of your vertuo. If this content is making sense to you,
Speaker 1: click the subscribe button and subscribe to the channel, Thank
Speaker 1: you for your support. In Machiavelli's brutal and unadorned view,
Speaker 1: fate is not a just entity that rewards the good
Speaker 1: and punishes the bad. Fate is a blind, relentless force,
Speaker 1: like a flood that sweeps away the unprepared and destroys
Speaker 1: poorly protected cities. And here is the truth that few
Speaker 1: have the courage to face. If you are not strong
Speaker 1: enough to govern your life, chance will govern for you,
Speaker 1: and luck for Machiavelli is a fickle mistress. She smiles
Speaker 1: upon the bold, but scorns the weak. In the prince,
Speaker 1: Machiavelli writes, fortune is like one of those impetuous rivers that,
Speaker 1: when they become enraged, flood the fields, topple trees and buildings,
Speaker 1: lift the earth from one side and deposit it on another.
Speaker 1: Each one flees from them, all yield to their fury,
Speaker 1: unable to resist. But although they are thus furious, this
Speaker 1: does not prevent men in times of calm from taking
Speaker 1: precautions with dikes and barriers. This metaphor is powerful and
Speaker 1: should resonate within you as a war alert. The world
Speaker 1: is unpredictable, violent, indifferent to your dreams and empty promises.
Speaker 1: Those who expect luck to smile upon them without preparation
Speaker 1: are condemning themselves to ruin. Only those who build internal dikes,
Speaker 1: a disciplined mind, an unbreakable will, can withstand when the
Speaker 1: storm comes. And this is where vertuo comes in. One
Speaker 1: of the deepest concepts of Machiavelian thought. Vertuo is not
Speaker 1: virtue in the moral sense. Vertwo is internal power. It
Speaker 1: is the ability to adapt, to act with strength, intelligence,
Speaker 1: and resilience in the face of adversity. It is to
Speaker 1: act strategically, shaping circumstances rather than being shaped by them.
Speaker 1: Verto is discipline in action. It is the expression of
Speaker 1: your ability to stand firm when everything crumbles, to create
Speaker 1: opportunities where others see only despair, To resist the childish
Speaker 1: impulse to blame luck for your own failures. For Machiavelli,
Speaker 1: great men do not depend on luck. They challenge it,
Speaker 1: bend it, use it as a tool, never as an excuse.
Speaker 1: They build their own dikes before the flood. They cultivate
Speaker 1: discipline before the crisis demands strength they do not have.
Speaker 1: They train their minds for war while others still sleep
Speaker 1: cradled by the illusion that everything will turn out in
Speaker 1: the end. Now look at your life with brutal honesty.
Speaker 1: How many times have you waited for circumstances to improve
Speaker 1: on their own? How many times have you hidden behind
Speaker 1: the excuse that the moment was not right. Fortune, for
Speaker 1: Machiavelli is unpredictable, but it is not invincible. Those who
Speaker 1: depend solely on it are doomed. Those who cultivate virtue win.
Speaker 1: But how to turn this philosophy into practice, How to
Speaker 1: stop being a plaything of luck and become a builder
Speaker 1: of one's own destiny. This is exactly what we will
Speaker 1: reveal in the next part, the great modern illusion about
Speaker 1: discipline and why most fail miserably in trying to achieve it. Today,
Speaker 1: the word discipline has been hijacked. It has been turned
Speaker 1: into a shelf product, wrapped in self help slogans, and
Speaker 1: sold as an easy trick to discipline oneself, they say,
Speaker 1: is to create automatic habits. It's about using apps, planners,
Speaker 1: colorful spreadsheets, as if humanity's oldest battle, the mastery over oneself,
Speaker 1: could be one with reminders on a phone and motivational quotes.
Speaker 1: This modern view is a grotesque farce. Machiavelli, if he
Speaker 1: were alive today, would laugh at this naivete. He knew
Speaker 1: that true discipline is not comfortable. It is not easy.
Speaker 1: It is not something you install in your life like software.
Speaker 1: Discipline is pain. It is a declared war against everything weak, lazy,
Speaker 1: and cowardly within you. You fail because you have been
Speaker 1: conditioned to seek shortcuts. You have been trained to believe
Speaker 1: that if you find the right habit, your life will
Speaker 1: align like magic. But real discipline does not arise from comfort.
Speaker 1: It is born from confrontation. It is not about waking
Speaker 1: up inspired to act. It is about acting even when
Speaker 1: your body cries out for rest, even when your mind
Speaker 1: tries to negotiate surrender. Machiavelli taught us that those who
Speaker 1: weigh for the perfect moment are already defeated. Preparation must
Speaker 1: be done during calm, not when the storm has already arrived.
Speaker 1: Discipline must be built on monotonous days, in silent moments,
Speaker 1: in the invisible battles we fight away from the world's eyes.
Speaker 1: It is in what no one sees that true power
Speaker 1: is forged. But the modern mindset treats failure as something normal,
Speaker 1: as part of a process. You are taught to forgive
Speaker 1: yourself too much, to reward yourself for every micro victory,
Speaker 1: as if life were a self esteem competition and not
Speaker 1: a matter of real survival. And while you anesthetize yourself
Speaker 1: with excuses, your potential rots inside you. Modern discipline is emotional.
Speaker 1: It depends on mood, motivation, environment. The discipline that Machiavelli
Speaker 1: describes is structural. It ignores mood, It despises motivation. It
Speaker 1: imposes itself as a mental fortress made of stone, not emotion.
Speaker 1: Those who wait to feel ready, who wait for the
Speaker 1: perfect alignment of the stars to act, live like cattle
Speaker 1: being led to slaughter, waiting for someone to decide their fate.
Speaker 1: If you want to build the discipline that forges empires,
Speaker 1: you will have to do what most never do. Abandon
Speaker 1: the need to feel comfortable, Accept that pain is part
Speaker 1: of it, Embrace the hardness as part of the forging.
Speaker 1: Transform your mind into a training ground where weaknesses are
Speaker 1: not tolerated but eliminated. And if you have understood the
Speaker 1: gravity of what we are discussing so far, then you
Speaker 1: are ready for the next step. How to build, step
Speaker 1: by step, a brutal and strategic routine based on Machiavelli's principles,
Speaker 1: A routine capable of making your discipline unbreakable. That is
Speaker 1: what we will build in the next part. It's time
Speaker 1: to abandon empty theories. If you want to win, you
Speaker 1: need to turn discipline into brutal, daily, inflexible practice. It's
Speaker 1: not enough to understand the importance of discipline as a concept.
Speaker 1: You need to build a structure so solid that neither
Speaker 1: your laziness, nor your fear, nor your doubt have room
Speaker 1: to survive. Machiavelli taught that the wise prince anticipates disasters.
Speaker 1: He builds defenses before he needs them. You must do
Speaker 1: the same with your mind. Establish your internal war strategies
Speaker 1: before the battle begins. If you wake up every day
Speaker 1: waiting to see how you feel to act, you have
Speaker 1: already lost. Your victory or defeat will be decided in
Speaker 1: the early hours of the morning, long before the world
Speaker 1: even realizes you are in the game. Here is the method,
Speaker 1: one constant vigilance, daily self oblit every day without exception.
Speaker 1: You must observe your own thoughts and behaviors as a
Speaker 1: general inspects his army before battle, Ask yourself, where am
Speaker 1: I leaving gaps? At what moment are my emotions taking command?
Speaker 1: If you allow a small habit of laziness, an innocent excuse,
Speaker 1: or a silly distraction to settle in, know this. These
Speaker 1: are the cracks through which failure will invade your fortress.
Speaker 1: Imagine your mind as a castle. Every act of laziness
Speaker 1: is a stone removed from the wall. Every procrastination is
Speaker 1: a catapult aimed at your own walls. Constant vigilance means
Speaker 1: acting like the commander who, even in times of peace,
Speaker 1: inspects his defenses every day, corrects flaws immediately, and punishes
Speaker 1: without mercy any sign of decay. Two clear strategy routines
Speaker 1: that eliminate the need for decision You need to understand
Speaker 1: brutal truth. Your brain, if given the option, will always
Speaker 1: choose the path of least resistance. Every decision requires energy.
Speaker 1: Every doubt consumes willpower. Machiavelli taught that in times of uncertainty,
Speaker 1: those who hesitate die. Therefore, building discipline starts by eliminating
Speaker 1: as many daily decisions as possible. Rigid routines are not
Speaker 1: a prison, they are true freedom. You must establish fixed
Speaker 1: times to wake up, work, study, train, and adhere to
Speaker 1: them as a soldier follows orders on the battlefield. Practical example,
Speaker 1: if you wait to decide whether to train after a
Speaker 1: tiring day at work, guess what. You won't train, Your
Speaker 1: brain will sabotage you. Now, if you turn training into
Speaker 1: a non negotiable commitment, fitting it into your day as
Speaker 1: part of your identity, there is no room for internal
Speaker 1: negoti ciation. Training happens period three, relentless reinforcement, real consequences
Speaker 1: for failures. In the real world, actions have consequences. In war,
Speaker 1: a mistake is not a detail. It is the difference
Speaker 1: between life and death. You must create consequences for your
Speaker 1: own actions. If you fail to follow your routines. There
Speaker 1: must be an immediate, tangible, painful price for your mind
Speaker 1: to understand that failing is not an acceptable option. Practical example,
Speaker 1: establish a public commitment. If you fail to follow your routine,
Speaker 1: you must donate money to a cause you despise. You
Speaker 1: must tell your friends that you failed. You must carry
Speaker 1: the weight of shame and loss. And more importantly, you
Speaker 1: must understand that discipline is not just about rewards, but
Speaker 1: mainly about avoiding Ruin comparison, to fix the idea, think
Speaker 1: of a soldier in training. He does not choose whether
Speaker 1: to run five kilometers in the rain because he is motivated.
Speaker 1: He runs because there is a chain of command, because
Speaker 1: he knows that failure means punishment, shame, expulsion. Your mind
Speaker 1: must work the same way. It obeys because it is right,
Speaker 1: not because it is comfortable. This is the truth that
Speaker 1: few except building Real discipline is putting chains on yourself
Speaker 1: before life puts shackles on you. It is making hardness
Speaker 1: a daily ritual. It is waking up every day and
Speaker 1: without feeling sorry for yourself, marching towards your goal with
Speaker 1: the coldness of a relentless commander. Now that you know
Speaker 1: what you need to do, a deeper question arises, why,
Speaker 1: despite knowing all this, do so many people continue to
Speaker 1: sabotage their own lives. It is this silent sabotage, this
Speaker 1: war against one's self, that we will expose and destroy
Speaker 1: in the next part. If what your hearing resonates with you, you'll
Speaker 1: find real value in my ebook Beyond the Shadow. It
Speaker 1: breaks down Jung's core ideas and gives you tools to
Speaker 1: understand yourself more deeply. Link is in the pinned comment.
Speaker 1: If you have made it this far, you need to
Speaker 1: understand one thing. Knowledge without action is cowardice. Many will
Speaker 1: hear these words, feel the cutting truth within them, and
Speaker 1: yet will return to their lives of excuses, procrastination, and
Speaker 1: self sabotage. They will go back to being subjects of
Speaker 1: their own impulses, slaves to their own weakness, begging for
Speaker 1: crumbs of luck while cursing fate. But some few will
Speaker 1: make the choice that transforms ordinary men into commanders of
Speaker 1: their own destiny. The choice to stop being governed and
Speaker 1: start governing, the choice to build true discipline, not as
Speaker 1: an ornament for good days, but as an unbreakable mechanism
Speaker 1: that sustains your entire existence. Machiavelli taught us that governing
Speaker 1: a state without discipline is a sure invitation to disorder
Speaker 1: and collapse. Now you know that governing your life without
Speaker 1: discipline is exactly the same. Your mind is your territory,
Speaker 1: Your habits are your troops. Your decisions are your strategies
Speaker 1: of war. You will be the prince or you will
Speaker 1: be the prisoner. There is no middle ground. There never was.
Speaker 1: Perhaps you think you still have time, that you can
Speaker 1: start tomorrow or next week, or when things get better.
Speaker 1: But Machiavelli warned us, the prince who waits for the
Speaker 1: perfect moment to act will be destroyed by the first
Speaker 1: tide of misfortune. The moment is now, while you have strength,
Speaker 1: while you can still the walls of your inner fortress.
Speaker 1: Discipline yourself, not for pleasure, not for approval, not for esthetics.
Speaker 1: Discipline yourself, because your life depends on it, because your
Speaker 1: freedom depends on it, because your greatness demands it. And
Speaker 1: now I want to hear from you in the comments. Right,
Speaker 1: I choose to be my own prince. Write this as
Speaker 1: a public commitment. Let this be recorded as the first
Speaker 1: conscious act of discipline in your new journey. It's not
Speaker 1: for me, it's for you, so that you remember that
Speaker 1: the first step to mastering the world is mastering yourself.
Speaker 1: And more importantly, don't stop here. Continue your transformation. The
Speaker 1: next video is vital to further strengthen your mind so
Speaker 1: that every decision you make from now on is a
Speaker 1: firm step towards total mastery over yourself. Watch, Reflect, Evolve.
Speaker 1: You are still just beginning to forge yourself.