Let’s elaborate. Discipline is an aggregate of skills the primary tenet of which along with discernment and integrity is self-control. Most of the people who authorize themself to administer discipline are the ones with very little or no self-control beyond involuntary muscle functions. Thus they might make it to the bathroom from the TV without crapping their pants but they have no business raising kids.
A business is like a baby so take for example the guys who came and went building these performance saws. Once the work flowed in, the cracks began to form. This is Randy’s domain let’s have a look at him. If he over promised and underdelivered, he’d be toast. If he didn’t know where his bits are, didn’t keep inventory or took time off whenever he felt like it,...toast. But that’s how parents act. First they have no skills or self-control. My Mom was an exceptionally good Mother by today’s standard but I could cook better than her within two days of assembling my first Weber grill when I was 12. I read the instructions. She couldn’t cook worth a piss. What’s she doing raising all those kids? Learning a skill requires skills. The fundamental ones are acquired from self-control. If you can’t sit down in front of a book that takes two hours to read for two hours, you can’t read the book. If you don’t read the book you don’t know what to do next. Self-control is learned not taught. It’s learned from watching someone who has it practice their discipline. Any level of spanking someone small is abuse. You are abusing power you assumed not earned. You are compensating for a shortcut you took before, which when you discovered it led to a wrong turn, could only be compensated for by taking another shortcut. Shortcuts are an abuse of power. Build something on a proper foundation and save yourself a ton of patchwork on the cracks later. Or write it all off as a koan and take every shortcut you can find.
