00:00How can an individual live a life without seeking validation or recognition from an authoritative figure?
00:06Authority is needed, yes. What you do not want is an external authority.
00:11Let your best discretion be the authority. How about that?
00:17An external authority or an external discipline is needed only because we lack internal authority and internal discipline.
00:26Then the external authority comes and says you be disciplined, you move this way, you follow this schedule, you stick
00:31to this deadline.
00:32That's what the external authority does, right? Sets do's and don'ts, operation manuals, I'll authorize, I'll approve, I'll permit.
00:40All these things can be done by the internal authority also.
00:44The punishment for not having an internal authority is that you'll have to tolerate an external authority.
00:50Do you want to tolerate that? Then be your own strictest authority.
