What Are You Fueling? | Don't Look For The Third Thing
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🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
In the early days of the pandemic, many of us picked up new hobbies and habits. We started taking walks. We started cooking for ourselves. Some of us stopped drinking. Some of us started doing 50 pushups when we woke up. Some of us stopped watching the news or quit Twitter.
As we talked about recently though, that time feels very far away. Some of those habits and practices, certainly the energy we had toward self-improvement, have slowed down. The last few years were also incredibly stressful and straining. What we thought would go on for a few months, dragged on, not unlike the plague of Marcus Aurelius’s times, stretching everyone’s ability to remain disciplined and focused.
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And in today's discussion of the excerpt from The Daily Stoic Journal, Ryan explores the Stoic idea that the reward for doing anything is the doing itself, and the internal satisfaction with having done it, not praise or external accolades.
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| 0:10.4 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes illustrated with stories from history, |
| 0:19.5 | current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 0:22.8 | And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, |
| 0:25.9 | setting a kind of Stoke intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, |
| 0:31.4 | something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing. |
| 0:35.8 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:50.1 | What are you fueling? |
| 0:52.3 | In the early days of the pandemic, many of us picked up new hobbies and habits. |
| 0:56.1 | We started taking walks. We started cooking for ourselves. |
| 0:59.3 | Some of us stopped drinking. Some of us started doing 50 push-ups when we woke up. |
| 1:03.3 | Some of us stopped watching the news or quit Twitter. |
| 1:06.4 | As we've talked about recently, though, that time feels very far away. |
| 1:10.7 | Some of those habits and practices, certainly the energy we had towards self-improvement has slowed down. |
| 1:17.4 | The last few years were also incredibly stressful and straining. |
| 1:21.0 | What we thought would go on for a few months, dragged on, not unlike the plague of Marcus |
| 1:25.4 | O'Reilly's time, stretching everyone's ability to remain disciplined and focused. |
| 1:30.9 | As a result, many of us picked up new bad habits, fell back into old ways. |
| 1:35.8 | Maybe we started drinking. Maybe that's when our Twitter usage really skyrocketed. |
| 1:40.6 | We got used to delivery fast food, especially. We stopped going to the gym. |
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