What We Want (And Deserve) More Than Anything | What’s Up To Us, What’s Not Up To Us
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 2 January 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
We think we want to be rich. Or famous. Or powerful. We want to succeed, we want to achieve. We want more of this. We want less of that. These desires of ours are explicit, they define our goals and order our priorities. We salivate over them.
But deep down, they don’t reflect what we actually want. They’re proxies, indirect ways of getting to what we’re really looking for.
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In this first Daily Stoic Journal entry of the new year, Ryan revisits the most important Stoic task that there is: distinguishing between what is in our control and what isn't.
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| 0:46.6 | What we want and deserve more than anything. |
| 0:52.4 | We think we want to be rich or famous or powerful. |
| 0:55.2 | We want to succeed. |
| 0:56.2 | We want to achieve. |
| 0:57.2 | We want more of this. |
| 0:58.2 | And unless of that, these desires of ours are explicit. |
| 1:02.2 | They define our goals and order our priorities. |
| 1:05.6 | We salivate over them. |
| 1:07.4 | But deep down they don't reflect what we actually want. |
| 1:10.2 | They're proxies in direct ways of getting what we're really looking for. |
| 1:14.9 | I want first of all, in fact, as an end to these other desires, Anne-Maro Limberg writes |
| 1:20.3 | in gift from the sea. |
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