It’s Easy To Forget This… But You Can’t. | Watch Over Your Perceptions
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
“You have so much to do. So much going on. There are only so many rolls of toilet paper left at the store. Only so many jobs available. Only so many kids who get accepted to the Ivy League, only so many spots on the bestseller list. So you fight. You claw. You might even kill to get what you want. What choice do you have?”
Ryan explains why life is not a zero-sum game, 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 Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes illustrative stories from history |
| 0:20.4 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:25.1 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:32.2 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:36.7 | So let's get into it |
| 0:42.1 | It's easy to forget this but you can't you have so much to do so much going on |
| 0:48.5 | There are only so many roles of toilet paper left at the store only so many jobs available |
| 0:53.9 | Only so many kids get accepted to the Ivy League only so many spots on the bestseller list |
| 0:59.7 | So you fight you claw you might even kill to get what you want what choice do you have |
| 1:05.4 | This is a lie. We have been believing since time immemorial |
| 1:09.6 | Alanis Morris set sings on her new single it is why we're in conflict with each other |
| 1:14.6 | It's that we believe that life is zero some one became two she sings and then everyone was out for themselves |
| 1:21.2 | Everyone was pitted against each other conflict ruled the realm |
| 1:25.6 | All of our devotions and temperaments are pulled from different wells |
| 1:29.8 | They seem to easily forget we are made of the same cells |
| 1:34.0 | We have been struggling with this since the beginning since the stoics and beyond |
| 1:38.9 | Cricypus a competitive athlete was writing more than two thousand years ago about what scholars now called the no-shoving rule |
| 1:45.8 | Yes, we're competing with each other. He said but we're all on the same team to cheat or trip or push an opponent |
| 1:52.9 | To do this is to lose even if you win |
| 1:56.1 | Marcus Aurelius the Emperor of Rome continually stress this to himself |
| 2:00.2 | I am a citizen of the world. He said we are made from the same material and revert back to the same material |
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