This Is How a Wise Man Responds to Triggers | Focus On the Present Moment
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🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
“There’s a story in the Talmud about a man betting his friend four hundred zuzim that he couldn’t provoke the famous rabbi Hillel into anger. The friend accepted the wager and settled on an ingenious and failproof strategy for pissing someone off: Asking really, really dumb questions.”
Ryan discusses the practice and humility that it takes to control your temper, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.7 | Illustrated with stories from history current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and |
| 0:25.0 | At the beginning of the week we try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.6 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:38.0 | So let's get into it |
| 0:41.5 | This is how a wise man responds to triggers |
| 0:45.4 | There is a story in the Talmud about a man who bet his friend that he couldn't provoke the famous rabbi |
| 0:51.5 | Haleel into anger the friend accepted the wager and settled on an ingenious and failproof strategy for pissing someone off ask really |
| 1:01.3 | Really dumb questions |
| 1:02.8 | Haleel was washing his hair when the man arrived and asking what he could do for him Haleel was hit with the first question |
| 1:09.9 | Why are the eyes of some foreign group blurried my son you have asked a great question Haleel replied |
| 1:16.9 | It's because they live in sandy places the man left waited an hour and came back for another question |
| 1:23.0 | Why are the heads of the Babylonians round he left and returned once more? |
| 1:27.5 | Why are the feet of Africans? Why? |
| 1:29.7 | Haleel answered each question like it was the first over and over the man returned each question more pointless and weirder than the last |
| 1:36.9 | But Haleel only sat down and said ask all the questions you have to ask are you the Haleel who is called |
| 1:43.4 | Nassie of Israel the man finally asked if that is you may there not be many like you in Israel and then he explained that Haleel's patients had cost him the money of the bet |
| 1:54.2 | Be careful with your moods Haleel warned |
| 1:56.5 | It is worth it that you should lose money and then more money |
| 1:59.8 | But Haleel shall not become angry he said Haleel believed what the Stokes believed that losing one's temper was a vice and that other people could not make us |
| 2:08.5 | Angry we choose to get upset a little knew that there were obnoxious people in the world and that letting them get to us solve nothing |
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