How To Become Rich | Watch Over Your Perceptions

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Education, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

The writers Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five) and Joseph Heller (Catch-22) were at a glamorous party outside New York City. Standing in the palatial second home of the billionaire host, Vonnegut began to needle his friend. He described the exchange in a poem published in the New Yorker in 2005:

I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel Catch-22 has earned in its entire history?”

And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”

And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”

And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”

And today's Daily Stoic Journal reading, Ryan discusses what the Stoics teach us about keeping constant watch over the flood of perceptions that fill our minds.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast.
0:05.7	Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, illustrated with stories
0:11.0	from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.
0:16.0	And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic
0:20.0	intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave
0:25.0	you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.
0:28.8	So let's get into it.
0:38.8	How to become rich.
0:42.0	The writer's Kurt Vonnegut, Slotter House 5, and Joseph Heller, Catch 22, they're at this
0:46.9	glamorous party outside New York City.
0:49.8	In standing in the polatial second home of a billionaire, Vonnegut begins to needle his
0:55.1	friend. He describes the exchange in a poem published in the New Yorker in 2005.
1:01.0	I said, Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host on the yesterday may have
1:05.6	made more money than your novel Catch 22 has earned in its entire history?
1:11.6	And Joe said, I've got something he can never have.
1:15.0	And I said, what on earth could that be, Joe?
1:18.0	And Joe said, the knowledge that I have enough.
1:23.5	And the Daily Stone Podcast recently, Molly Bloom, the infamous poker host and subject
1:28.3	of Aaron Sorkin's movie, Molly's game, you should definitely listen to the interview.
1:32.6	We'll link to it below.
1:33.9	She referenced this exact story to give us an idea of what it would be like to be in the
1:38.2	room with some of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world.
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