This Is The Greatest Pleasure | 9 Habits the Stoics Want You to Stop Doing
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🗓️ 20 December 2022
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Summary
The Stoics were not afraid of joy, but they found joy in a different place than most people. It wasn’t pleasure. It wasn’t accumulating money. “Just as one person delights in improving his farm, and another his horse,” Epictetus liked to say, “so I delight in attending to my own improvement day by day.”
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Excellence isn’t this thing you do one time. It’s a way of living. It’s foundational. It’s like an operating system and the code this system operates on is habit.
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| 0:39.3 | This is the greatest pleasure. |
| 0:43.0 | The stoics didn't reject worldly pleasures. |
| 0:45.3 | They rejected the reckless ones, the dangerous, the ephemeral, the empty ones. |
| 0:51.0 | These weren't afraid of joy. |
| 0:55.1 | It wasn't pleasure. |
| 0:57.1 | It wasn't accumulating money. |
| 0:59.1 | Just as one person delights in improving his farm and another his horse, epictetus like |
| 1:03.0 | to say, so I delight in attending to my own improvement day to day. |
| 1:08.8 | Delight, not a word you'd expect to see from epictetus, but there it is. |
| 1:12.9 | It could be found in such an unexpected way, not in materials, not in a hobby, but in |
| 1:17.1 | one self, in improving oneself. |
| 1:20.6 | When you think about it, isn't that a wonderful thing? |
| 1:23.0 | When you get better, when you realize your full potential, we can imagine Marcus are really |
| 1:27.4 | as having fun while riding his meditations because he was attending to his own development. |
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