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🗓️ 19 February 2025
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The world is full of mysteries. There is so much to learn.
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1:10.5 | Investigate yourself first. The world is full of mysteries. There's so much to learn, |
1:13.0 | so much to discover. There are libraries of things to read about. Every day brings countless news stories to follow. Do UFOs exist? What's |
1:18.2 | going on with this scandal or that one? Who do you think is to blame for this or that? |
1:22.3 | And while the Stoics were certainly curious and intellectual people, they tried to ignore a lot of that. |
1:27.1 | Why? Because they had plenty of |
1:29.4 | other questions they needed answers to first, questions that pertain more to self-awareness and |
1:35.1 | self-actualization than being informed. In fact, I am dealing with those more important issues, |
1:42.2 | Seneca wrote, the ones that soothe the mind. And I investigate |
1:45.4 | myself first and then, he said, the cosmos. Look, the man was a plugged-in power broker who also |
1:53.5 | published a multi-volume series on natural history and biology. So he was hardly ignorant. He just |
1:57.9 | tried to remind himself that his first child was to understand himself. It to solve the problems of living, before he then distracted himself with the issues of the |
2:06.4 | universe. In our very busy, very noisy and very confusing modern world, this is a great model to |
2:15.0 | follow. We ought to investigate ourselves first. Get to the bottom of what's |
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