So welcome back to the podcast. My name is Joseph Clough and this is episode 817 and today we're going into

Stoism. We're going to be more stoic in life. Now, some people don't know what that really

means, so let's kind of break that down in a way that gives us the foundation. It gives us the foundation as to what we're

going to learn. So Stoism is about even going through hardships, being able to tolerate that hardship

and also be able to see that hardship in a different perspective that once you do,

it changes your relationship and therefore your thoughts and your feelings to it.

Now, I've noticed, and by the way, in this episode, I'm going to go through a series of questions.

These questions are to get you to think differently, to give you a different perspective. Now, it can be in a

specific context, like a certain situation, but a lot of these questions are also going to be

for your whole life, your whole life. So it's going to be fun, are also going to be for your whole life. Your whole life.

So it's going to be fun.

It's going to be insightful.

But if we go into it then, why is this important?

Because we know what it is really, how we change our perspective.

But why do I want to be speaking about this today?

And why should you be listening and answering

these questions? Well, if we think of what most of my audience experiences, it's going to be

the anxiety, the worries, self-doubt, the lack of confidence, the dread, the procrastination, the self-sabotage, which means we are seeing

the world from that reactive state. We're reacting in a negative, associated state.

Well, if we want to see the world differently, we've got to see it for a

different lens, not the present lens, because the lens of anxiety, the lens or the glasses of self-doubt,

is not producing the good results that you want. It might have a good intention trying to protect you

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