Here’s Why Worry Is Pointless
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🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Ryan discusses the worthlessness of worry, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:53.9 | Here's why worry is pointless. |
| 0:56.5 | Humble people worry less than the arrogant. |
| 0:59.1 | Why is that? |
| 1:00.4 | Because they aren't so conceited as to think that they have any idea or control over what |
| 1:05.3 | may or may not happen. |
| 1:07.4 | The poet Rilka put it well. |
| 1:10.0 | Life is not even close to being as logically consistent as our worries. |
| 1:15.1 | It has many more unexpected ideas and many more facts than we do. |
| 1:20.1 | Worry is pointless not only because it rarely makes things better, but also because you're |
| 1:24.7 | rarely ever worried about the right thing. |
| 1:27.6 | Senka's line was that nothing happens to the wise man contrary to his expectation. |
| 1:33.7 | By that, the arrogant person might take it to mean that the wise person is so smart that |
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