Discipline isn’t about doing more. It’s about resisting the need to respond.
Most damage comes from activity during uncertainty—adjusting, reacting, interfering with a process that hasn’t failed. Intelligence doesn’t prevent this. Experience doesn’t either. Only structure does.
Rules exist to absorb pressure when clarity is absent. They reduce decision-making when decisions are most costly. Over time, consistency isn’t built by avoiding losses, but by avoiding unnecessary action.
In quiet periods, restraint feels unproductive. In hindsight, it’s often the reason survival was possible.