The Best Don’t Care About Winning
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks about how a Stoic thinks about success, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:46.0 | of history's greatest men and women. |
| 0:53.6 | The best don't care about winning. |
| 0:56.8 | It's a strange paradox. |
| 0:58.1 | The people who are most successful in life who accomplish the most, who dominate their |
| 1:02.3 | professions, don't care that much about winning. |
| 1:05.5 | Certainly, they talk about it less. |
| 1:08.0 | How could that be? |
| 1:09.4 | It's that they're after something higher than that. |
| 1:11.9 | There after what post-Sodonia, an early stoic, told the great Roman general Pompey, as |
| 1:16.7 | I talk about in lives of the stoics, their goal is to be best, not the best, but best. |
| 1:24.6 | They're after mastery, self-mastory. |
| 1:27.4 | They're after maximizing their potential. |
| 1:30.6 | Marcus really wasn't measuring his accomplishments as emperor against the great conquerors of |
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