Do This To Get That
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🗓️ 10 January 2024
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Summary
In a sense, this is also the secret to happiness. No one can give us step-by-step instructions for achieving happiness—not even the Stoics. But they did teach us how to be resilient, how to think, how to manage frustration, how to do hard things, how to endure, how to laugh, how to focus on process vs outcomes, to try to be useful, to be empathetic, how to love. It’s with these tools—with the ability to adapt to circumstances, to find the opportunity in obstacles big and small—that we’re able to experience happiness.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:08.5 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life. |
| 0:13.1 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old |
| 0:16.2 | philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest |
| 0:18.9 | men and women. |
| 0:20.1 | For more, you can visit us, DailyStoit.com. |
| 0:24.0 | Do this to get that. |
| 0:26.0 | Obviously, we want to be happy. |
| 0:28.0 | But as we all know, it's not as simple as that. |
| 0:30.0 | Happiness isn't something that just happens. |
| 0:32.5 | It's not something anyone can give us or that we can purchase, |
| 0:35.5 | nor is it something that any of us can hold on to. |
| 0:38.5 | It's a rather fleeting thing. |
| 0:40.5 | So how do we get it? What do we do? There's a great exchange between Epictetus. |
| 0:45.0 | If you haven't read his discourse as you should. I've got some good copies I recommend in the |
| 0:48.6 | Patedge. But the exchange is between Epictetus and one of his students. |
| 0:51.8 | And the student is asking Epictetus to show |
| 0:54.6 | him what to do so he can be wise and successful. This is the wrong request, Epictetus says. |
| 1:00.4 | It would be better to ask how to be adaptable to circumstances. |
| 1:05.0 | In a sense, this is also the secret to happiness. |
| 1:08.0 | No one can give us step by step instructions for achieving happiness, not even the Stoics. But they did teach us how to be resilient, how to think, |
| 1:15.8 | how to manage frustration, how to do hard things, how to endure, how to laugh, how to focus on |
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