There Is No More Or Less Time | Don't Let Your Attention Slide
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🗓️ 21 April 2023
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Three years removed from those eerie and strange days of the early pandemic, one thing that strikes us is how much time we seemed to have then. People were picking up hobbies, slow cooking elaborate meals on the groceries they could get. People found their jobs that used to keep them late at the office could be finished in a couple hours. People were reading philosophy and zipping through books. There was no business travel, no long days on the road. The days blurred into each other, but there seemed to be infinite space for chatting with friends and family over Zoom, catching up on TV series we missed.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. But it sure felt like there was a lot of time.
Today, with life back to ‘normal,’ all that seems very far away.
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Andy in today's Daily Stoic excerpt reading, Ryan discusses why holding your attention on what really matters in a world full of media that is constantly trying to pull it away is a crucial part of maintaining a happy and healthy.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, add free on Wondering Plus. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcasts. |
| 0:09.4 | On Friday, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, |
| 0:13.0 | but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic, |
| 0:16.0 | my book, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, |
| 0:19.0 | Perseverance in the Heart of Living, |
| 0:21.0 | which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, |
| 0:24.0 | and a literary agent, Stephen Hanselman. |
| 0:27.0 | So today, I will give you a quick meditation from the Stoics |
| 0:30.0 | with some analysis from me, |
| 0:32.0 | and then we'll send you out into the world |
| 0:34.0 | to turn these words into works. |
| 0:46.0 | There is no more or less time. |
| 0:49.0 | Three years now from those eerie and strange days |
| 0:52.0 | of the early pandemic, |
| 0:54.0 | one thing that strikes us is how much time |
| 0:56.0 | we seem to have that. |
| 0:58.0 | People were picking up hobbies, slow cooking, |
| 1:00.0 | elaborate meals on the groceries they could get. |
| 1:03.0 | People found that jobs that used to keep them late at the office |
| 1:05.0 | could be finished in a few hours. |
| 1:07.0 | People were reading philosophy and zipping through books. |
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