The Daily Stoic - Your Mind Is Not Your Friend
Episode Date: July 19, 2023How would you describe someone who lies to you? Who riles you up? Who makes you anxious and afraid? Who questions whether you’re good enough? Who has preposterous blindspots and disturbing ...biases? Who prods you to suspect the worst of others? Who tricks you into doing things you’ll regret? Who encourages your worst impulses?But this is what our mind does to us on a daily basis!✉️ 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.
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Your mind is not your friend. How would you describe someone who lies to you, who riles you up, who makes you anxious and afraid, who questions whether you're good enough,
who has preposterous blind spots and disturbing biases, who prods you to suspect the worst of others,
who tricks you into doing things you'll regret, who encourages your worst impulses.
And yet this is what our mind does to us on a daily basis.
Your mind is not your friend, the national saying, it takes you by the hand and it leaves
you nowhere.
And they're not wrong.
As much faith as the Stoics had in our ruling reason,
they were quite skeptical, even suspicious of our mind.
That's why Epic Tidus talked about putting
every impression to the test.
That's what Marcus really was doing in his meditations,
working through his thoughts,
having a kind of debate with himself about things
he was sometimes inclined to think, but new might be wrong.
And this is what we must do.
Our mind can be a partner and a friend, sure, but we have to be of two minds about it.
Our mind can be a source of strength and support, but it's also not the most reliable or
trustworthy of friends.
We have to understand a competent and adapt to this reality, make our decisions, and
think our thoughts accordingly.
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