What Do You Do When You Have Nothing To Do? | Don't Let Your Soul Go First
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🗓️ 27 December 2024
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The in-between moments. The extra time you were planning to get. What do you do in these moments?
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| 1:10.0 | meditation, but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic, my book, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, in the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, and literary agent, Stephen Hanselman. So today we'll give you a quick meditation from the Stoics with some |
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| 1:52.1 | What do you do when you have nothing to do? The in-between moments, the lulls, the waiting, |
| 1:59.7 | the extra time you weren't planning to get. What do you do in those moments? For many of us, |
| 2:03.2 | these brief windows are instantly filled with what Seneca called busy idleness. We get occupied by mindless and meaningless distractions. We check email, we gossip, |
| 2:11.2 | we sit there waiting for it to be over. Over on the Daily Stoke podcast, |
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