You've read so much. You write so much. You have the wisdom of someone who is, who has lived many, many lives.

That's what reading is, by the way. You know what I mean? Reading is maybe the only way that you can live multiple lives.

Like you think about the millions of people

who have done crazy things, groundbreaking things, terrible things,

and you think of all that wisdom.

It's all there in books.

And, you know, it's $10.

Sometimes it's a dollar.

Isn't it funny how similar the wisdom is, though?

Yeah, I think the more you read that you you come up with some sort of themes it boils down eastern and western philosophy

kind of like a horseshoe you know they come come together towards the the ends but what are those

themes what are the themes of living a good life that I must know

first would be let's say you focus on what's in your control like what's up to you okay what does

that mean in practical in in day-to-day life so someone cuts me off in traffic yeah uh somebody you don't

somebody doesn't like something that you did uh the weather, you know, how much of your energy are you spending emoting about, complaining about, worrying about things that are not up to you?

And what do the, is there any particular examples from Stoicism where?

Well, Epictetus is like, that's our first job in life,

is to separate things into two categories.

Is this up to me or is this not up to me?

And it's a resource allocation issue, right?

Like if you are focusing your energy,

even half of it on stuff that's not up to you,

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