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Start a new conversation or join one »   What do all inmates
have? Time. It's what they do with it that matters. With that
time, they can reflect on their lives and improve themselves to
not make those bad choices anymore. They can also read, and
exercise. This stucture is basically forced upon them because
there's not much else to do, and many times, the things that are
forced upon us we grow to resent. so upon release, that strcture
many times isn't maintained by that individual... The only way
to succeed is to learn to adopt that structure for oursleves.
When we take the time to read, exercise and reflect on our
lives, we instantly become better and improve our odds of
success in any field.  When studying to become, say, a doctor
there's a certain isolation from everyday things that you have
to endure because this process takes up so much time. With that
isolation, you are in fact an inmate, in a good way. The
"prison" structure has been placed