This Is Why It's So Hard | Practice True Joy
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 24 May 2021
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“Everyone has trouble admitting they were wrong, including Marcus Aurelius. Yes, he writes glibly in Meditations about how he’s glad to be corrected, but why do you think he wrote that? Because it wasn’t natural. He was reminding himself...probably right after he caught himself failing to admit an error.”
Ryan discusses why it’s dangerous to confuse what we do with who we are, 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 Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.2 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.1 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of Stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.6 | So let's get into it |
| 0:43.9 | This is why it's so hard |
| 0:47.1 | Everyone has trouble admitting they were wrong including Marcus Aurelius |
| 0:51.3 | Yes, he writes globally in meditations how he's glad to be corrected |
| 0:56.2 | But why do you think he wrote that because it wasn't natural? |
| 0:59.7 | He was reminding himself probably right after he caught himself failing to admit an error |
| 1:05.5 | It's hard for us to admit we're wrong because of a little thing called cognitive dissonance |
| 1:10.7 | When we have a strong belief when we are committed to an action or a cause and are shown contrary information |
| 1:16.0 | We're challenged. Can we really accept that we were so stupid as to actually think that that we wasted all that time |
| 1:23.2 | Money energy over something that turned out to be silly or worse |
| 1:26.9 | What if our beliefs or actions caused real harm to ourselves or others? |
| 1:32.3 | COVID-19 has been a terrifying |
| 1:35.1 | illustration of this |
| 1:36.6 | First certain people discounted it completely next they resisted lockdowns or closures or social distancing |
| 1:42.8 | Next masks then vaccines in between they believed conspiracy theories behave recklessly and said horrible things |
| 1:50.4 | All the while the death tolls rose matched only by the piles and piles of clear evidence |
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