We Can Get This Expensive Thing Cheap | The Long Way Around
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🗓️ 23 June 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The rarest thing in the world is wisdom. The most expensive thing in the world is experience. How many truly wise people have you met? How many of them would take the time to download to you all that they know? And of the small amount of wisdom you have accumulated in your life, how much painful trial and error did it take to get it?
There is really only one shortcut or hack around this. It is the theme we have returned to here many times: reading.
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And in today's excerpt from The Daily Stoic, Ryan examines what the Stoics say about choosing to stop taking the long way around to getting what you want, and the benefits that immediately follow.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon |
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| 0:08.2 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. On Friday, we do double-duty not just reading our |
| 0:16.3 | daily meditation, but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic. My book, 366 Meditations |
| 0:23.0 | on Wisdom, Perseverance in the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, |
| 0:29.2 | and a literary agent, Stephen Hanselman. So today, we'll give you a quick meditation from the |
| 0:34.3 | Stoics with some analysis from me, and then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words |
| 0:40.3 | into works. |
| 0:51.3 | We get this expensive thing cheap. The rarest thing in the world is wisdom. The most expensive thing |
| 0:58.4 | in the world is experience. How many truly wise people have you met? How many of them would take |
| 1:04.4 | the time to download to you all that they know? And of the small amount of wisdom you have accumulated |
| 1:10.1 | in your life, how much painful trial and error did it take to get it? There's really only one |
| 1:17.2 | shortcut or hack around this, and it's a theme we have returned to many times here. It's reading. |
| 1:23.6 | By spending a few dollars for a book, the great Admiral Rickover once said, the thoughts and |
| 1:28.0 | life's work of a great man is available to us. Or as Senica put it by reading and studying |
| 1:33.5 | philosophy, a person is able to annex every age to their own. All the harvest of the past is added |
| 1:42.4 | to their story, he said, and it's this beautiful quote that is the epigraph to the Daily Stoke. |
| 1:47.9 | Consider how many Marcus Reliuses there have been, how many Rickovers, how many Stockdales, |
| 1:53.1 | consider how much pain and struggle went into their becoming who they were. And now for a few |
| 1:59.3 | dollars, their thoughts and life's work is available to you. Only an in great Senica would say |
| 2:05.4 | would fail to see this as the incredible gift that it is. Only a fool would not take this amazing |
| 2:12.9 | deal and take it right now. One of the things you learn when you talk to really great |
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