What Would You Do Less Of? | What Expensive Things Cost
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Ryan explains why the practice of Memento Mori is so important, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal.
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| 1:16.0 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:18.9 | What would you do less of? |
| 1:21.3 | We spend so much time on stuff that doesn't matter that we don't even like. |
| 1:25.6 | Maybe it's a job or a commute to that job. |
| 1:28.1 | Maybe it's doom scrolling on our phone or answering emails. |
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