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Self-discipline is the ability of an individual or person to mange and control his/her emotions, thoughts and behavioural pattern. it enables an individual to work towards obtaining and achieving set goals and overcoming temptations and act of procrastination which can hinder human development and growth in the social sphere.

As humans grow in knowledge, wisdom and age it becomes a necessity the need to exercise control over every aspect of our lives, in order to act accordingly at the appropriate time. According to Descartes and Aristotle perspective of the dualism nature of every humans, which establish that the composition of every human is made of two components, the body and the mind ("mind" also considered as the soul in some part of the theory of dualism) the mind being the central processing unit of every human just like the computer.

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It is empowered with the function of overseeing human conduct, which dictates humans personality, thoughts and the behavioural pattern of every human. to an extent it has more control over human conduct than humans themselves because some factors and variables exist deep down in our subconscious which exist outside the bounds of human control in most cases, it sounds complex, it is considered the inner self that calls the shot. Every act or action taken by any human has passed through the mind before it manifest physically.

For any human to exercise control over the conduct of our lives and navigate it instead of the mind freely dictating our thoughts and choices, this can only be achieved through self discipline which enhances humans ability to influence their state of mind, though the mind still dictates but a human with self discipline has the privilege to write the script which the mind will be forced to act upon, just like the way some humans naturally exhibit qualities such as honesty, integrity, consistency e.t.c it is because such individual has trained his/her mind to act in that order, which in return becomes an attitude that naturally manifest in human subconscious.

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In the case of mentally unstable individuals, it can not really be said that they are acting in ways they don't want to or being forced to exhibit such behavioural pattern but the issue is that they are no longer conscious of their actions and given up all control of their physical and psychological actions to the mind to act at will, like a psychological prison created by humans themselves but navigated by the mind.

Based on my opinionated perspective, a human who lacks the virtue of self-discipline, such human shares the same similarities with a mentally unstable individuals because such person or persons can't be expected to act appropriately, due to their inability to control their emotions, desire, lust e.tc such person without self discipline will eventually become a danger to the rest of humans in the society, an endangerment to the world at large. Overtime a person without self discipline tends to exhibit negative behaviour such as Addiction (to substance such as drugs, alcohol or sex, which can lead to being a rapist, alcoholic or a serial killer in worst case scenarios due to being under the influence of drugs or alcohol) And OBSESSION ( an individual that lacks self control can become obsessed with power, authority, ambition, money e.t.c willing to go to extra length to be in possession of these things will endanger others in the society, imagine such a person in a position of power, we all know how that goes).

According to my understanding, I believe no other human virtue or qualities or attributes exist outside the bounds of self discipline, a human with self discipline has it all because he/she will know what to do, when to do it and where to do it without being told.

Every human including me, in one way or the other, directly or in indirectly has been endangered, hurt, tortured and tormented as a result of another person or persons lack of self discipline. if I decide to explain or describe scenarios when I have been hurt by lack of self discipline it will take more than five (5) articles to pen it all down, to prove the rate at which Indiscipline has traumatized the human society.

Based on all the necessity of self discipline I have explained it can be deduced that self discipline is necessary in every human life, in order for humans to coexist and bring about development in the social sphere. In order for any human to achieve anything significant their is need for us to acknowledge the importance of self discipline.

I'm open to alternative point of view and perspect on this subject, if you have a contrary perspective kindly let me know in the comment section. Learning is a continuous process