The Daily Stoic - It’s About The Paring Down

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 journal philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoic.com. It's about the pairing down. Really, what the stoics we're trying to do is pair down what they had to

Starting point is 00:00:42 worry about. That's why Epic Titus said our first job was to determine what is in our control and what isn't because that eliminates an enormous chunk of concern from our concern. Suddenly, we don't need to think as much about the past or the future. We don't have to care what other people think about us. We don't need to compare ourselves to anything or anyone. When Rousseau said that man is born free but lives in chains, think about us, we don't need to compare ourselves to anything or anyone. When Rousseau said that man is born free but lives in chains, he knew that most of those chains were self-imposed. But if we can study this philosophy, if we can hold our

Starting point is 00:01:15 impressions up to the light and look at them, does this matter? Is this up to me? We'll get an angry or scared, make this any better, we can break free from those shackles. The payoff of this pairing down of our concerns is freedom. As Epictetus says, the fruit of the philosopher's work is peace, courage, and above all liberty. That's why we're doing this, so we can reap the rewards inherent in wisdom. Wisdom, even a tiny bit, is perspective and priorities with that, is freedom. Just the heads up, there's now an obstacle is the way pendant in the daily stoic store. It's awesome, we have it made here in the U.S., we designed it ourselves. It's got Marcus Aurelius

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The Daily Stoic - It’s About The Paring Down

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