You were taught discipline as punishment. Somebody with authority handed you that definition, and you never checked the receipt.
This episode goes back to where the word actually started, and it is not where you think. Then it gets personal: the one currency I protect above everything, the boundary most people never think to set, and the purchase that got me in the best shape of my life for the wrong reason. Plus the household rule my daughters know by heart.
Discipline is not the hard hand. It is the bridge to the life you are designing. Cross it with me. How do you divine discipline?