Paul Skallas on the Lindy Effect and Standing the Test of Time | 'Normal' is the Enemy

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🗓️ 7 July 2021

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:11.5	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.5	meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life.
0:26.5	And on Wednesdays we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well known and obscure, fascinating and powerful.
0:35.5	With them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives.
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1:33.5	Normal is the enemy.
1:37.5	We've heard people say it, you've said it. We're all hoping, hoping for things to go back to normal.
1:43.5	Of course this is absurd, not just because normal doesn't exist, but if it did, then isn't normal to blame for what happened?
1:53.5	It was our normal life that set up the conditions for the pandemic that made us so vulnerable and unprepared for something like it to happen.
2:00.5	Musoneus Rufus, whose story I tell in lives of the Stoics, knew a thing or two about pining for normal.
2:07.5	After all, he was unjustly exiled four times, including ones to a desolate island off the coast of Greece.
2:15.5	While he languished there, missing his old life, hating his provincial existence, he stopped to remind himself and his fellow exiles that when we were home we did not enjoy the whole earth, nor did we have contact with all men.
2:29.5	Normal was a mirage, as he was saying, because when he could do things he missed. Most of the time he chose not to.
2:37.5	Just as 90% of New York City never actually took the time to enjoy the cities and amenities while they were open, even before the pandemic.
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