The Daily Stoic - You Must Find Your Rules and Stick To Them

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wundery's podcast business wars. And in our new season, Walmart must fight off target. The new discounter that's both savvy and fashion forward. Listen to business wars on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. on music or wherever you get your podcasts. 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 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailystowup.com. You must find your rules and stick with them.

Starting point is 00:00:54 It'd be wonderful if life never tempted you if you could just go day-to-day, winging it and always doing right, but that's not how the world is. That's not who you are. If left to our own devices with enough opportunities eventually will mess up, will drift, will stray. That's why the best leaders have what General James Mattis has called flat ass rules. Know what you stand for and stick to it, he said, draw the line and hold it. Harry Truman famously explained some of his. He wrote, in all this long career, I had certain rules I followed when loser draw, I refused to

Starting point is 00:01:33 handle any political money in any way, whatever. I engaged in no private interest, whatever that could be helped by local state or national governments. I refused presence, hotel accommodations, or trips which were paid for by private parties. I made no speeches for money or expenses while I was in the Senate. I lived on the salary I was legally entitled to and considered that I was employed by the taxpayers and the people of my country, state, and nation. One of the earliest and most ferocious debates amongst the early Stoics was about the necessity of precepts. This doesn't seem controversial to us now, but to Stoics like Aristo, the idea of needing these rules for living was a cop out. A wise person, a trained philosopher, should just do right instinctively and automatically,

Starting point is 00:02:20 he said. Others, like Xeno and later Seneca, believe that life was more more complicating, more importantly it was exhausting. So to create shortcuts and guidelines was to help ensure that we stay on the right path, that we don't let the complexity and the nuance of each individual scenario allow us to compromise on the big high standards we know we hold. So stay at your rules and stick to them. That itself is a great rule, whether it pertains to diet or ethical behavior. Thanks for listening to another episode of The Daily Stoke. It's mind blowing to me now that we are well over 30 million downloads at this show. It means so much to me to have

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The Daily Stoic - You Must Find Your Rules and Stick To Them

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