Ask Yourself These Crucial Questions | Practice True Joy
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🗓️ 22 May 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
There’s a story of Musonius Rufus paying a thousand sesterces to a charlatan posing as a philosopher. When an observer stepped in to say that the man was a liar unworthy of the payment, Musonius replied, “money is exactly what he deserves.”
It’s always revealing to look closely at those who seem to prize financial success above all else. The writer Anne Lamott jokes in Bird by Bird, “Ever wonder what God thinks of money? Just look at the people he gives it to.” Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, “Robbers, perverts, killers, and tyrants—gather for your inspection their so-called pleasures!”
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And in today's Daily Stoic Journal excerpt reading, Ryan meditates on the unique aspects of Stoic joy, and why it should be practiced every day.
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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. |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes illustrated with stories from history, |
| 0:19.6 | current events and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 0:22.6 | And at the beginning of the week we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoke, intention for the week, |
| 0:28.6 | something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing. |
| 0:35.6 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:38.6 | Ask yourself these crucial questions. There's a story of Musonius Rufus paying who awarded a sum of money to a charlatan who posed as a philosopher. |
| 0:59.6 | When an observer stepped in to say that the man was a liar unworthy of the payment, Musonius replied, |
| 1:05.6 | money is exactly what he deserves. It's a great line and it brings up a point. |
| 1:11.6 | We all want to have money, but when we look at people who have money, they're not always who we want to be. |
| 1:20.6 | The writer Anne Lamott jokes in bird by bird, you ever wonder what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gives it to. |
| 1:29.6 | Marcus really is in meditation's rights of the robbers and perverts and killers and tyrants he says, gather for your inspection. |
| 1:36.6 | They're so called pleasures. |
| 1:40.6 | I think the idea when we think about money, when we think about wanting to be rich, when we think about what money might do for us, |
| 1:47.6 | is to really be sure that we have clarity about what we want to do and what we think is going to happen. |
| 1:55.6 | Here are some important questions that you need to think about when it comes to your own ambitions and desires. |
| 2:03.6 | Are you sure that the goals you are pursuing are what you truly want? |
| 2:08.6 | Are you sure that money will fix your problems? Are you sure that you have correctly defined financial freedom? |
| 2:14.6 | Are you sure that you can handle success? Are you sure that you deserve that success? |
| 2:20.6 | Are you sure you're going to do things differently than the many cautionary tales out there? |
| 2:24.6 | Are you sure you're going to be happy with what you get? Are you sure it's going to be worth it? |
| 2:32.6 | In the wealthy stoic, our new course, the daily stoic guide to being rich and free and happy, these are the kinds of questions we dig into. |
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