The Daily Stoic - Everything Is Breaking Down

Episode Date: December 27, 2018

Nearly two thousand years before Rudolph Clausius and Lord Kelvin first expressed the second law of thermodynamics (although there is debate on whether or not the French physicist Sadi Carnot discovered it earlier), Marcus Aurelius was musing on it. “Bear in mind,” he wrote, “that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges and in transition, subject to fragmentation and to rot. Or that everything was born to die.”That is to say: We are all subject to entropy. Science has since confirmed it into immutable law. We cannot eliminate disorder from the system, no matter how much we try. Everything we build, including ourselves, is constantly breaking down. What does this mean for us? First, it should bake in humility. We are building sand castles. Even our real castles eventually fall into the sea or crumble into dust. Second, it demands presence. This moment is all we have. So enjoy it. Drink it in. Appreciate it.But also be prepared to let it all go. Because it’s going, whether we like it or not. That’s the law. 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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although there is some debate about whether a French physicist discovered it earlier, Marcus Aurelius was musing on the same idea. Bear in mind, he wrote that everything that exists is already fraying at the edges and in transition, subject to fragmentation and to rot, or that everything was born to die. That is to say, we are all subject to entropy. Science has since confirmed it to immutable law. We cannot eliminate disorder from the system no matter how much we try. Everything we build, including ourselves, is constantly breaking down. What does this mean for us? First, it should bake in humility. We are building sand castles. Even our real castles eventually fall into the sea or crumble into dust.

Second, it demands presence. This moment is all we have. So enjoy it. Drink it in. Appreciate it. But also be prepared to let it all go because it's going, whether we like it or not. That's the law. Epic Titus' line was how much longer are you going to wait until you demand the best for yourself? I think

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