Beware This Heavy Burden
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🗓️ 3 July 2024
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There is a hidden cost to everything you own. Things don’t just cost you monetarily. They cost you mentally, too.
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| 0:44.9 | Beware this heavy burden. It might not be Seneca's greatest observation, but it's certainly up there. |
| 0:50.4 | He said, with regard to the objects which we pursue and for which we strive for with great effort, we should note this truth. That some objects are superfluous others are not |
| 0:54.3 | worth the price we pay for them but we do not see this clearly he said and we regard |
| 0:58.7 | things as free gifts when they really cost us dear we are eager to attain them at the cost of anxiety of danger and have |
| 1:06.0 | lost honor, personal freedom, and time. There is a hidden cost to everything you own. Things |
| 1:11.9 | don't just cost you monetarily, they cost you mentally too. everything you |
| 1:15.0 | on the things don't just cost you monetarily they cost you mentally to on an episode of the daily stoic podcast last summer with the one and only Kevin Rose who I've known for a very long time |
| 1:20.0 | He said the thing that I've realized in my life and I'm sure you probably |
| 1:25.1 | preach this on the regular is that every object that I own everything yeah is a |
| 1:31.6 | subconscious mental burden without a doubt. |
| 1:34.4 | Yes. |
| 1:35.4 | There's like it can be it can be the wheel barrel that has a flat tire sitting out in the |
| 1:39.2 | backyard. |
| 1:40.2 | Like at some point I know I have to go figure out how to get that fixed right? |
| 1:43.2 | Yeah, yeah, it's like so it's anything I am I've like reduced the stuff that I have |
| 1:49.8 | Yeah, but like an order of magnitude over the last like five years. |
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