What If You Weren’t Such a Know It All? | Practice Letting Go
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🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Ryan talks about how to truly cultivate wisdom, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoke intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
| 0:42.4 | What if you weren't such and know it all? |
| 0:46.0 | You're smart you went to college. You've read lots of books |
| 0:49.4 | You've seen a thing or two so you know a lot when people have questions you have answers when stuff happens |
| 0:56.1 | You've got opinions when there are problems you have solutions and this is great, right? |
| 1:03.0 | Maybe |
| 1:04.0 | Epic teetus reminds us that it's impossible to learn that what you think you already know to the Stokes particularly |
| 1:10.4 | Zeno can seat was the primary impediment to wisdom |
| 1:14.5 | Because when you've always got answers opinions and ready-made solutions what you're not doing is learning |
| 1:21.2 | What you're not doing is looking at things objectively clearly with fresh eyes |
| 1:25.8 | You're just relying on instinct and preconceived notions |
| 1:29.8 | Ego is the enemy for a reason it blinds us it distracts us it puffs us up and prevents us from learning |
| 1:37.1 | The less of a know it all we are the more we can actually get out and discover the more open will be the wiser will become |
| 1:46.7 | Remember the key to Socrates's philosophy was his admission of ignorance |
| 1:52.2 | It was his desire to ask questions his willingness to be proven wrong his interest in having conversations |
| 1:58.5 | With anyone about anything |
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