The Daily Stoic - There Is No “One Last Job”

Episode Date: September 22, 2020

"Just a few more years we tell ourselves. Just until I make enough money. After I make rank. Almost there. These are the lies we tell ourselves, the rationales for why we’re doing the thing we hate or being the kind of person we’d rather not be."Ryan tells us why you must leave the intolerable situation you find yourself in, 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 @DailyStoic: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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guided some of history's greatest men and women? For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. There is no one last job. Just a few more years we tell ourselves just until I make enough money after I make rank almost there. These are the lies we tell ourselves, the rationalizations for why we're doing the thing we hate or being the kind of person we'd rather not be. And ended up years later still in Nearow's service. Time and time again, he must have told himself, I'll get out soon, just let me get the boy on firmer footing, just let me get through this console ship.

He was telling the lie that the brilliant comedian and writer Pete Holmes talked to me about on the Daily Stoke podcast recently. He called this the lie of one last job. It's the lie that bank robbers tell themselves, just as comedians or musicians do, one more tour, one more album, then I'll slow down, but it never happens. It can't happen. Seneca was never able to get out, never able to get free. He tried to give Nero his fortune back,

but it didn't work. Only with death was he let go, let go from the addiction to power, the addiction to doing the fantasy of one last job. You could leave life right now, Marcus, it really reminds us. We have to let that determine what we do and say and think as well as the jobs we take. Life is too short to be or do things you know aren't right, that you know you aren't meant to do. Don't put it off. Don't lie to yourself. It will never happen unless you pull the trigger right now. And that's what this exercise of Memento Mori is about, you touch that coin in your pocket

or the ring or the pen in your under neck, it's supposed to remind you, I might not get any more time, am I glad to spend it this way? Is this what I was put on the earth to do, as Marcus really said, am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore. And that usually gives us some very clear, traumatic perspective.

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