The Daily Stoic - Not No Emotions, No Useless Emotions

Episode Date: January 26, 2021

“Stoicism, as we have said, is not the elimination of all emotion. It’s the regulation of them. Effectively, as Nassim Taleb has said, it’s the domestication of your urges and impulses and knee-jerk reactions.”Ryan explains that the goal of a Stoic is to react with their ruling reason, not to stuff their emotions down into a dark hole, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee 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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Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can can visit us dailysteal.com. Not no emotions, no useless emotions. Stoicism, as we have said, is not the elimination of emotion. It's the regulation of them. Effectively, as Nassim Taleb has said, it's the domestication of your urges and impulses and knee-jerk reactions. It's okay to be surprised.

It's okay to be scared. It's okay to be hurt," Senika said. No amount of philosophy can remove that initial feeling. But what you can work towards is getting to a place where you're not ruled by these things. Feeling love, that's great. Feeling a desire to help others or feeling joy wonderful. In contrary to belief, there's nothing in the stoic text about crushing

those very human feelings. But feeling rage or bitterness, Seneca has a whole book on the dangers of that. We're putting in our work on the destructive emotions because we know that not only do they do us no good, but they make us and the world worse. As Ruth Bader Ginsburg once explained, my mother's advice was don't lose time on useless emotions like anger, resentment, remorse, envy. Those she said, well, just sap time. They don't get you where you want to be. And one way Ruth Bader Ginsburg said she coped with being angry was that I would sit down and practice the piano. I wasn't very good at it, but it did distract me from whatever useless emotions I was feeling at the

moment. Later, I did the same thing with the cello. She said, I would be absorbed in the music and the useless emotion faded away. A stoic isn't an emotionless robot. They're also not just a body at the whim of every feeling originating from the heart or the brain. We are in control. Our ruling reason makes the decision. That's where we're trying to get. And look, we have two challenges here at Daily Stoke that I think will help you get to that place of being in charge rather than being at the mercy of your whims.

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