The Biggest Lie In The World | Toxic Habits The Stoics Want You To Stop Doing
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🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
You may well have said it yesterday, or overheard someone else saying it, “Oh, I’ll do it in the morning…I’ll do it after I wake up…I’ll get to it later…I just need to do this other thing first.”
It’s one of the oldest, most insidious lies in the world. Yet it’s so common that we don’t even notice it. We don’t even realize that it is a vicious untruth that deprives us and the world of potential, of awareness, of understanding.
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And in today's Daily Stoic video excerpt, Ryan shares what habits did the Stoics say we ought to cease, what vices should we avoid?.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom |
| 0:08.4 | designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:11.4 | On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual |
| 0:16.7 | lives. |
| 0:17.7 | Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:30.0 | The biggest lie in the world. |
| 0:32.6 | You may well have said it yesterday or overheard someone else saying it, oh, I'll do it in |
| 0:36.6 | the morning. |
| 0:37.6 | I'll do it after I wake up. |
| 0:38.6 | I'll get to it later. |
| 0:39.6 | I just need to do this other thing first. |
| 0:42.6 | It's one of the oldest, most insidious lies in the world, and yet it's so common that |
| 0:46.6 | we don't even notice it. |
| 0:47.9 | We don't even realize that it's a vicious untruth that deprives us in the world of potential, |
| 0:53.6 | of awareness, of understanding. |
| 0:56.0 | As Marcus really subserved 2,000 years ago, it's the lie that will be good tomorrow. |
| 1:01.4 | It's what Seneca said, all fools, and all of us are fools. |
| 1:04.4 | It's what we all have in common, that we're getting ready to start. |
| 1:08.8 | You won't get to it tomorrow. |
| 1:10.2 | You're deceiving yourself, and even if you somehow weren't, if you were truly sincere, |
| 1:16.0 | who is to say that you are guaranteed to have tomorrow? |
| 1:19.7 | Procrastination is not just dishonest, it's arrogant. |
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