We’re Broken…But Not Fixed | What Little Wins Can You Find?
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🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
We all have bad habits. Some of us procrastinate. Nearly all of us, as Seneca said, are slaves to something–food or sex or booze or ambition. We don’t work as hard as we should, or we work too hard. We’re too quick with our temper, we’re too slow to ask for help.
It’s easy to be cynical about ourselves. We know, more than anyone, how long we’ve been struggling with things. We know how ingrained our bad habits are, how hard it’s going to be to get over them. But we can’t give up.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic's illustrated with stories |
| 0:11.0 | from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 0:16.0 | And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic |
| 0:20.0 | intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave |
| 0:25.0 | you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing. |
| 0:28.8 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:43.3 | We're broken, but not fixed. |
| 0:46.0 | We all have bad habits. |
| 0:47.7 | Some of us procrastinate. |
| 0:48.8 | Nearly all of us, Asenika said, are slaves to something food or sex or booze or ambition. |
| 0:53.9 | We don't work as hard as we should, or we work too hard, too quick with our temper or |
| 0:58.0 | too slow to ask for help. |
| 1:00.3 | The point is we're not what we could be. |
| 1:02.4 | And in some cases, we're quite messed up. |
| 1:04.0 | Indeed, we are all quite flawed. |
| 1:06.5 | In a recent episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast with Tim Urban, he's the creator of Wait |
| 1:11.7 | But Why and he's the author of this new book called What's Our Problem, I talked to him |
| 1:16.2 | about his lifelong struggle with some of these very habits, namely, just, namely, distraction |
| 1:22.3 | and procrastination. |
| 1:24.3 | And Tim was quite aware about how his weaknesses in these areas have made things harder for him |
| 1:29.4 | over the years. |
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