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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to work or to get the kids to school.

And we have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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The MMA fighter, and now he's a coach, his name is Frank Shamrock, he's a UFC champion. He has a system that he teaches his fighters, he calls it plus, minus, and equal.

And basically what he says is that every great fighter needs to have someone who's better than them, that they train under, someone who is equal to them in ability, that they challenge themselves against on a daily basis, and someone who is not as good as them, who they teach what they've learned from the other two.

And it's this system that's being a student in everything that you do that is what makes you good, it's what makes you better, and most importantly, it's what hammers away at the ego that undermines our ability to be on a team or to relate and work with other people.

Emerson has a quote that is how I try to live my life as well. He says, every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn from him. He's saying that even when you might be better at someone at 99% of what you do,

there's still 1% that they're a little bit better at, and that's what you focus on. It's how can you absorb, if you can absorb one thing from every single person that you meet, you will become better and better and better and eventually you'll become unbeatable.

Even when you are doing great, what you want to be looking at is what you could do better, not what you did well. Elizabeth Noel Newman, she's a sculptor, and she's saying, this is something I try to live my life by as a writer.

She's saying, I never look back except to find out about mistakes. I only see danger in looking back and seeing things you're proud of, because this is what pops up the ego. This is what makes you think you're invincible, that you are faded to win, that everything is yours by right, and of course that's not the case.

So you look backwards to find mistakes, and you look forward to find opportunities to apply those new lessons and be better than you were the first time.

Marcus Aurelius is saying, ambition is tying your well-being to what other people say or do. That's tying yourself to outcomes. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happens to you, but sanity means tying it to your own actions. That's tying it to what you do, what you think, what you can improve, not looking at it.

Not looking at what the scoreboard says, because that's irrelevant. Ultimately, the scoreboard should not be as high as the standard that you personally hold yourself to. Do your job, do it right, right?

Andrew Johnson, before he became president, before he was the governor, he's giving a talk, and a Heckler cries out from the crowd, what the Heckler is joking about and making fun of is the fact that Johnson comes from humble beginnings, right?

He wasn't a born politician, he wasn't born wealthy. In fact, he was a tailor. His job was making clothes for other people who were rich and successful.

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