What Would Less Look Like? | Say No to the Need to Impress
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
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🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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“This has not been fun. It’s been brutal. But it has been, at least, an exercise in that question that the Stoic aficionado Tim Ferriss is a fan of: What would less look like? Less flights. Less dinners out. Less meetings. Less income. Less time with friends.”
Ryan explains why you must focus on what is essential, 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 |
| 0:11.7 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:18.8 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:20.8 | current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:25.7 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:32.8 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.2 | So let's get into it |
| 0:41.2 | What would less look like this has not been fun. It's been brutal |
| 0:46.2 | But it has been at least an exercise in that question that the stoic aficionado Tim Ferriss is a fan of what would less look like |
| 0:54.8 | Less flights less dinners out less meetings less income less time with friends |
| 0:59.8 | Some of that has been easier to bear than others |
| 1:02.4 | Some of it has been sad and lonely other parts of it have been downright liberating the thing about less |
| 1:08.5 | Why we ask Marcus Arelius's version of the question is this essential? |
| 1:13.6 | Is that less often reveals what more looks like because as tough as the last few months have been |
| 1:20.1 | It's also meant more sunsets from the back porch more dinners at home more appreciation for the people and things that matter |
| 1:27.4 | More understanding of the urgency of |
| 1:30.2 | Momentum worry |
| 1:31.3 | That's what Marcus was saying what Tim was trying to get us to see when we do less we get a double benefit |
| 1:36.9 | We cut out what is inessential and we do what is essential much much better |
| 1:42.4 | There is not a lot of redeeming qualities to a pandemic |
| 1:45.7 | But we should at least try to take this lesson from it. We are being taught what less looks like |
| 1:51.1 | We are being taught that less can actually be more |
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