How Do You Not See This? | Be Stingy With Time
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 7 December 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
"You consider yourself a programmatic thinker, a political realist, a student of history, a righter of wrongs, a teller of truths. The world is going to hell and you know how to fix it. But maybe you’ve become blind to the way your decisions, your actions, your beliefs are contributing—not to any sort of solution, but rather to the very thing you’re bemoaning. Maybe you’re the problem."
Ryan describes why we should be wary of the absolute certainty that we know what is right and wrong, and reads this week's meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:17.5 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:19.5 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:24.3 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of Stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:31.4 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:35.8 | So let's get into it |
| 0:38.8 | I wanted to tell you about someone today who's a friend of mine who's show I've been on many times and as it happens |
| 0:45.4 | Is my neighbor out here in the country in Texas? |
| 0:47.9 | I'm talking about today's sponsor optimize |
| 0:50.7 | Optimize is created by Brian Johnson and entrepreneur after you created and sold his first two companies |
| 0:56.3 | Decided to dive deep in how to live the best life and that's what optimize does |
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