The Daily Stoic - Beware The Little Things

Episode Date: May 11, 2021

“It can be easy to make an excuse. Oh, it’s just a bad habit. Oh, it doesn’t matter. It’s also easy to think you’ve got this life thing handled—because you’ve survived some big adversity in your time. In truth, we are all vulnerable. To our habits. To unexpected weaknesses.”Ryan explains why small steps are no small thing, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowup.com. Beware the little things. It can be easy to make an excuse. Oh, it's just a bad habit. Oh, it doesn't matter. It's also easy to think that you've got this life thing handled

because you've survived some big adversity in your time. In truth, we are all vulnerable to our habits to unexpected weaknesses. Great things can kill a man, but if they don't, he is stronger and better for them. John Steinbeck once wrote, a man is destroyed by the duck nibblings of nagging small bills, telephones, athletes, foot, ragweed, the common cold and boredom. All of these are the negatives, the tiny frustrations, and no one is stronger for them. From the Greeks, we get the reminder of the Achilles heel, a great and powerful man undone by his only weak point. From Xeno, we are reminded that small steps

are cumulatively no small thing. And the same goes for the list of ailments and entropies that Steinbeck mentioned. Cicero was undone in the end by a simple act of indecision. Marcus was troubled by a stomach ailment, and Xeno saw the end coming when he broke his finger. We must be aware of the little things. We are not invincible. We should not take our health, wealth, or strength or granted. We should be aware of our weak points. We should be aware of tiny frustrations, let's say come together and cease to be so small. Design your life and your defenses accordingly. And look, we have this Daily Stoke Habits challenge and it's six weeks of habit formation and positive habits are important but one of the whole week is about breaking bad habits and I do think that bad habits add up and they

they exact a pretty profound toll on us. I'm always thinking about what I need to cut from my life what's what's holding me back what's what's contributing to unhappiness and so I do think you'll like this challenge you can check it out at dailystalk.com slash habits. And of course, you can get it for free. If you sign up for daily stoke life, you get a whole bunch of awesome stuff, including a cloth bound book that's not for sale anywhere of my best meditations. You get some interviews. You get quarterly chats with me.

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