Always Consider the Unconsidered Consequences | Think About It from the Other Person’s Perspective
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 15 March 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
“A little while back we talked about the bold stroke—inspired by the Stoics—which struck down Julius Caesar and his reign on the Ides of March. This moment has always been judged ambiguously by historians. Yes, Caesar was a tyrant… but did the ends justify the means? And what were the ends? Were they successful? Were things better or worse?”
Ryan explains why you must think it all the way through before you act, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:18.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:20.2 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:25.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:32.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:36.6 | So let's get into it |
| 0:42.2 | Always consider the |
| 0:44.5 | Unconsidered consequences a little while back we talked about the bold stroke |
| 0:49.5 | Inspired by the stoics which struck down Julius Caesar and his reign on the odds of March |
| 0:55.8 | This moment has always been judged |
| 0:58.6 | ambiguously by historians. Yes, Caesar was a tyrant but did the ends justify the means and what were the ends? |
| 1:05.6 | Were they successful or things better or worse after he was assassinated? |
| 1:10.9 | Because in destroying a dictator the conspirators created the emperor Augustus |
| 1:16.9 | It's funny how that works blowback. That's what they call it unintended consequences |
| 1:22.4 | And so it's not that a stoic is risk averse. It's that a stoic has to be because of our understanding of history |
| 1:31.4 | Humble we have to have some humility we have to think about blowback |
| 1:35.8 | We have to think about the worst case scenario |
| 1:38.8 | That's one of the lessons in my book conspiracy a true story of power sex and a billionaires |
| 1:44.4 | Secret plot to destroy an emperor which draws not only on Peter Tears conspiracy |
| 1:50.3 | But all the timeless plotting and schemes of history where so often they they ended up going sideways |
| 1:57.8 | Teal was successful in destroying Gokker |
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