The Daily Stoic - Remind Yourself Of This

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

It doesn’t always feel like it. Not when you’re regularly screwing up. Not when you keep losing your temper, not when you’re not as patient as you should be with people. Not when you keep doing selfish things. Not when you’re still dealing with scripts from your childhood. Not when you hear the things your ex says about you. Not when you compare yourself against the greatness of the people you admire—be it a mentor or some historical figure, a Cato or a Marcus Aurelius.But it’s true.You are good inside.Even if you have done bad things. Even if you have drifted off the path. Marcus Aurelius tried to remind himself that there was a spring of goodness inside of him and that no matter what he or anyone shoveled on some of it, it was still there, still fresh and new and ever-flowing.The Stoics did not believe in original sin. They did not think we were hopelessly broken. They believed that being who we were—living well, living as our nature intended us to live—was always possible. You might be low and awful right now, Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, but in just a few days you can be worthy of being seen as a god. He was telling himself he just had to go back to the teachings, go back to his principles, go back to the spring.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com. Remind yourself of this. It doesn't always feel like it, not when you're regularly screwing up, not when you keep losing your temper,

not when you're not as patient as you should be with people, not when you keep doing selfish things, not when you're still dealing with scripts from your childhood, not when you hear the things your ex says about you, not when you compare yourself against the greatness of the people you admire, be it a mentor or some historical figure, a Cato or a Marx-Rilis. But it's true, you are good inside. Even if you've done bad things, even if you've drifted off the path, Marx-Rilis tried to remind himself that there was a spring of goodness inside him and that no matter what he or anyone shoveled on it, it was still there, still fresh and new and ever-flowing. The Stoics did not believe in

original sin. They did not think we were hopelessly broken. That they believed that being good, living well, living as our nature intended us to live, was always possible. You might be low and awful right now, Marx really writes in meditations, but in just a few days, you can be worthy of being seen as a God.

Telling himself he just had to go back to the teachings, to go back to his principles, to go back to the teachings, to go back to his principles, to can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad free with Wondery Plus and Apple Podcasts.