The Daily Stoic - Don’t Borrow Suffering
Episode Date: April 22, 2022Ryan talks about why you should not let other people’s negative emotions affect you.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Tik...Tok, 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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Don't borrow suffering. Here's a line from Seneca. We suffer more in imagination than in reality. Meaning we spend so much
time worried about how bad things are going to be that we actually torture ourselves more
than the thing we're worried about ever could. That is, if it happens at all. This is
an interesting tension in stoicism. After all, isn't Seneca the guy who also said,
we should project our thoughts ahead of us at every turn and have in mind every possible
eventuality instead of only the usual course of events. Rehearse them in your mind, exiled,
torture, war, shipwreck, all the terms of our human lot should be before our eyes. Isn't that a contradiction?
No, not exactly.
Notice that Sennaka does not say
we should suffer unnecessarily in advance.
He says we should rehearse and prepare.
He does not say that we should torture ourselves
with worry or fear.
That's what most people miss about pre-metatasia and malorum,
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It's about being realistic. It's not about borrowing, worry, or paying in advance. It's not supposed to make you paranoid or pessimistic. It's supposed to make you prepared. Bad stuff can happen. Bad stuff can happen to us.
We need to be aware of that. We shouldn't be surprised by it, but we also shouldn't work
ourselves into a state and confuse that worry with prevention or preparation. Estobic is aware
of the possibilities of life, and at the same time has their head down and focuses on what is in front of them,
and what's inside their circle of control.
Is that complicated and a bit of a balance?
Sure, but welcome to life.
It's complicated, and you can handle it.
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