Don’t be the lion, be the cage.

Dan Hicks
2 min readFeb 4, 2021

A meditation on the power of self-control.

Photo by Matthew Kerslake on Unsplash

It is easy to mistake being capable of doing something as compelling reason to actually do it.

We allow ourselves to mistake our skillset as something that we have a responsibility to use, when in fact the opposite couldn’t be more true.

You must exercise restraint. Yes, it’s a gift to be talented, but we erode the…

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