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“I've been sleeping better since I cut out screen time at night.”
Setting a simple rule, no screens after a certain hour, and trusting it is a perfect example of living within bounds. Small, self-imposed limits produce outsized benefits over time.
Your Practice
Keep the rule and defend it from exceptions. Notice which other areas of your life improve downstream, energy, focus, mood. Then ask: where else could one simple bound produce a similar effect?
The Architects
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them... we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.”
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, ch. 1 (1103a-b), W.D. Ross translation