Don’t Let Your Virtues Become This Vice
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 11 February 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks about why you have to think make progress for it's own sake.
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| 0:52.1 | Don't let your virtues become this spice. |
| 0:55.3 | So we've begun to get serious about our training, both physical and philosophical, before |
| 1:00.5 | we never read, now we do, before we were lazy and slothful, and now we're regularly going |
| 1:06.4 | to the gym. |
| 1:08.0 | Before we would eat everything we felt like eating too much of it usually, and now we're |
| 1:13.3 | on a diet and we're sticking to it. |
| 1:15.6 | This is great. |
| 1:16.6 | We've conquered a vice. |
| 1:18.2 | Now there is a new danger that this virtue becomes a new vice, the vice of pride, of superiority, |
| 1:24.8 | of obnoxious self-satisfaction. |
| 1:27.0 | You know the type, because well, they won't just let you not know how great they're doing. |
| 1:32.6 | Have they can't believe they used to eat that? |
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