The Daily Stoic - Beware This Heavy Burden
Episode Date: July 3, 2024There is a hidden cost to everything you own. Things don’t just cost you monetarily. They cost you mentally, too. 🎙️Listen to Kevin Rose’s full interview on The Daily Stoic📚 Pick ...up a copy of Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk at The Painted Porch: https://www.thepaintedporch.com/✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee 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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Beware this heavy burden. It might not be Seneca's greatest observation, but it's certainly
up there
He said with regard to the objects which we pursue and for which we strive for with great effort We should note this truth that some objects are superfluous others are not worth the price we pay for them
But we do not see this clearly he said and we regard things as free gifts when they really cost us dear
We are eager to attain them at the cost of anxiety, of danger, and have lost honor, personal freedom, and time.
There is a hidden cost to everything you own.
Things don't just cost you monetarily,
they cost you mentally too.
On an episode of the Daily Stoic podcast last summer
with the one and only Kevin Rose,
who I've known for a very long time, he said,
The thing that I've realized in my life,
and I'm sure you probably preach this on the regular,
is that every object that I own,
everything is a subconscious mental burden without a doubt.
It can be the wheelbarrow that has a flat tire
sitting out in the backyard.
At some point, I know I have to go figure out
how to get that fixed, right? Yeah, it's like so it's anything I am I've like reduced the stuff that I have
Yeah, but like an order of magnitude over the last like five years
The things we own as the writer Chuck Palnick put it in Fight Club end up owning us
Because now we have to use it. We have to get our money's worth out of that
We have to figure out where to put it, how to take care of it, how to ensure it. Some part of you is constantly carrying these and
other subconscious mental burdens. If you can't stop prizing a lot of other things,
Marcus Relius wrote, you will never be free. Free, independent and imperturbable.
You will always be envious and jealous, afraid that people might come and take it all away from
you. It's really that simple. Reduce the amount of stuff you have and you'll free yourself
from this very and often unnecessary burden.
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