The Daily Stoic - If You Can Get THIS, You Will Be Happy. Guaranteed.

Episode Date: December 3, 2021

Ryan talks about the only thing that you really need to be satisfied, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow 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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of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowup.com. If you can get this, you will be happy, guaranteed. There is in many of us a sense of lacking, even though we have so much, our health, our families, our homes, we want more. Things are good, but it feels like to be truly happy. They need to just be a little bit better. Indeed, this is the human condition, and it always has been. We think that the next honor, the next dollar, the next accomplishment will finally do it for us.

It was Seneca who writes most eloquently of this desire, this insatiability we all have. Alexander the great, he notes, was poor, despite his conquests of most of the known world. Because he could only think of the next campaign. Seneca notes that money rarely makes us rich, because all it does is give us a craving to earn more. The cycle is timeless from Alexander the Great to Seneca's to ours. We chase, we get, we crash and decide. the only way to feel that high again is to repeat the whole thing, but bigger, better and with more. This is wrenching and impotent. It's an angst and ache captured beautifully by the bridge in the song all we ever knew

by the head in the heart. I'm feeling low, I'm feeling high, the song goes, feeling down. Why isn't this enough? I'm feeling low, feeling high, feeling down. Why isn't this enough? Why isn't this enough? Because it will never be enough. No amount of acquiring or doing or experiencing ever will be. Can you understand that? Can you try to get this through your head?

We must come to terms with the fact that the soul can never be filled by possessions. And there are no conditions from which we can accomplish happiness. No, it must in sue. It can only emanate from virtue, from gratitude, from the stillness that comes when you are present. You don't need more. You have enough.

You can be happy right now. Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Stoke Podcast. Again, if you don't know this, you can get these delivered to you via email every day. So check it out at dailystoke.com slash email. Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke early and ad-free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery Plus in Apple Podcasts. Celebrity feuds are high stakes.

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