CHAPTER 48
Harness the Power of Discipline
LEARNING FROM
Thomas Mann
The lesson to be learned from one of the most important writers and best-known Nobel Prize laureates is about a virtue that attracts far too little attention in connection with achievement: discipline.
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) was extremely disciplined, and surely no manager could help but wonder at the results the author achieved through his systematic approach to work. Mann worked on his current novel every day from nine in the morning to noon. If things were going well, during that time he managed to produce between one and one-and-a-half pages. He did this always, wherever ...
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