On discipline and self-restraint

I climbed the mountain and sat at its top, all while talking philosophy. This video is about an hour long. These are the main themes:

Story about me when I was younger, which illustrates how I had the appearance of discipline without a solid grasp of the “why”
Continuation of that story, delving into my bad habit with alcohol consumption. The gist is that I overestimated my ability by believing in my own narrative of how disciplined I was—a mistake.
How can we have self-restraint without a good understanding of our self and of our limits?
Discussion on the introspection—the search for the “why”—that made me understand the reason I was behaving in that bad way (where alcohol was the facilitator and enabler of certain experiences).
Tie it all together in an exposition about not talking big and not overestimating our abilities.
Comment on three more stories that further explain these and related ideas.
In short: be patient, take it slow, do not assume that you are special, do not talk big, have a sense of purpose that is consistent with your actuality, put yourself to the test in order to learn who you are (what you can and cannot do).