Turn The Colors On | These 14 Small Mindset Shifts Will Change Your Life
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🗓️ 2 January 2024
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Summary
Like any normal person, part of Marcus Aurelius did not want to wake up, especially early. No, he wanted to “huddle under the blankets and stay warm,” he would say. It was nicer there. Easier there. But another part of him knew he wasn’t created to feel nice, to have it easy. “I have to go to work — as a human being,” he said, hauling his feet up and onto the floor.
This is the internal back and forth so many of us have every morning. Not Arnold Schwarzennegger though. “My rule in the morning is, ‘don’t think,’” he said on a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. To prevent the internal back and forth, the negotiating, the rationalizing, the justifying, Arnold recommended, “Make it a rule where you say, ‘Okay, there are certain things that I would do before I start thinking…I’m going to work out before I start thinking.’ Don’t think. Just go. Get out on a walk. Get on that bicycle. Get to the gym.”
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And in today's Daily Stoic video excerpt, Ryan outlines 14 small mindset changes. For the most part, we can’t change the world. We can’t change the fundamental facts of existence–like the fact that we’re going to die. We can’t change other people. So one way to think about Stoicism itself then is as a collection of mindset shifts for the many situations that life seems to thrust us in. Indeed, Seneca’s Letters, Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and Epictetus’ Discourses are filled with passages, anecdotes, and quotes which force a shift in perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:11.0 | On Tuesdays we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our |
| 0:16.1 | actual lives. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy. Turn the colors on. Like any normal person part of Marcus Realist did not want to wake up, especially early. No, he wanted to |
| 0:34.7 | huddle under the blankets and stay warm, he said. It was nicer there, easier |
| 0:39.0 | there. But another part of him knew that he wasn't created to feel nice to have it easy. |
| 0:43.7 | I have to go to work as a human being, he said, hauling his feet up and onto the floor. |
| 0:49.1 | This is the internal back and forth that so many of us have every morning. |
| 0:53.0 | Not Arnold Schwarzenegger though, |
| 0:55.0 | as he said on a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, |
| 0:58.0 | The rulers don't think. |
| 1:00.0 | And so because I feel like a lot of people when they get up the mind starts wondering. |
| 1:05.8 | It's a natural thing. |
| 1:07.8 | We all do that. |
| 1:08.8 | Overthinking. |
| 1:09.8 | But if you make it a rule where you say, there's certain things that I would do before I start thinking and that is, I'm going to work out for an hour. |
| 1:19.0 | So now if the mind tells you, eh, you know, the day is okay, I mean, what the hell is Sunday? |
| 1:25.6 | No one will know him and it's just going to have some pancakes instead. |
| 1:29.0 | And it's just to kind of reorganize you a little bit. |
| 1:32.3 | You say, wait a minute, what did that just do? |
| 1:37.2 | I thought and I promised myself I'm not going to think and you will feel good and that's the key thing people should always know when you |
| 1:46.4 | physically if you feel good physically and you can do wonderful things physically then you feel mentally much better about yourself. |
| 1:55.8 | The day starts in black and white, Arnold continued. |
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