It's Not About Manifesting, It's About Taking Action | Spendthrifts Of Time
The Daily Stoic
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4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Ryan discusses the Stoic’s take on the law of attraction, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:20.7 | Welcome to the lead starting five on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stood Podcast. |
| 0:34.6 | On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading |
| 0:40.6 | a passage from the book, The Daily Stood, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance in the |
| 0:46.6 | art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman. |
| 0:52.4 | And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the stoics from Epititus Markis |
| 0:57.3 | Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me. |
| 1:00.6 | And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works. |
| 1:08.1 | It's not about manifesting. |
| 1:10.3 | It's about taking action. |
| 1:12.8 | The things you think about determine the quality of your mind, Markis Relius wrote, your soul |
| 1:18.6 | takes on the color of your thoughts. |
| 1:21.6 | Does that mean that Markis and the stoics believed in the law of attraction, the belief that |
| 1:25.9 | the universe creates whatever it is you focus your thoughts on, as popularized by the |
| 1:31.3 | authors of the secret? |
| 1:33.4 | We get asked this question a lot at Daily Stood. |
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