Where Is Your Command Center? | Casey Neistat's 10 Stoic Practices (For Productivity)

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We get all sorts of messages. From the world. From social media. From other people. From our bodies. The question–the great difficulty of life–is gathering, deciphering and deciding which of these messages to listen to and act on, and which to ignore.

One of the best translators of the Stoics, Robin Waterfield (you must read his annotated edition of Meditations), renders Marcus Aurelius’s use of the word hegemonikon as command center. Using this military metaphor, he says that we use our mental command center to receive all the messages of life and then send out our own messages to ourselves.

And while YouTube pioneer and highly successful entrepreneur Casey Neistat was in Austin premiering his new film at SXSW Ryan Holiday caught up with him to find out how he applies Stoicism to his work and life.

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1:55.0	Where is your command center?
1:58.0	We get all sorts of messages from the world, from social media, from other people from our bodies.
2:05.0	The question, the great difficulty of life is gathering, deciphering, deciding which of these messages to listen to and act on and which to ignore.
2:16.0	One of the best translators of the Stoics, Robin Waterfield, and you must read his new annotated edition of Meditations and we had him on the podcast as well.
2:25.0	He renders Marcus's use of the word hegemonicon as command center using this military metaphor. He says that we have to use our mental command center to receive all the messages of life and then send out our own messages to ourselves.
2:42.0	For instance, some urge in your body is telling you to do something.
2:46.0	The command center decides whether this urge is good or not, whether to act on it or not, or perhaps a strong emotional impulse is telling you to be afraid that you have been hurt, that you should be angry.
2:58.0	But again, the command center evaluates the intelligence that has been brought with this claim.
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