Worry About This And Forget The Rest
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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What’s up to us is that we do our best, what’s up to us is that we are the best we’re capable of being.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to The Daily Stoic early and ad free right now. Just join Wondery |
| 0:05.9 | Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, where each day |
| 0:15.4 | we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, |
| 0:21.6 | everyday life. |
| 0:26.5 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us, dailystill.com. |
| 0:41.9 | Worry about this and forget the rest. There was once a young, promising Greek politician whose rise threatened some established |
| 0:47.5 | leaders. |
| 0:48.5 | As a way to blunt his potential, they promoted him to a, and promote theirs in quotes, to a job overseeing the city's sewers |
| 0:57.0 | and water. It was supposed to be a humiliation or at the very least a dead end job. Instead, he did such a good job. He |
| 1:04.0 | endeared himself to the population and with discipline in earnestness, Plutarch writes, that he proceeded to |
| 1:10.6 | transform that insignificant office into a |
| 1:13.4 | great and respected honor, even though previously it had involved nothing more than overseeing |
| 1:18.3 | the clearing of dung and the diverting of water from the streets. Whatever we do, if we do it well, |
| 1:23.5 | is noble. We told a related story in the Daily Dad email recently, email on a podcast we do |
| 1:28.9 | every day like The Daily Stoic. You can just add it into your Spotify or Apple subscriptions |
| 1:34.1 | and just get an extra short message every single day. But the point is we told this story from |
| 1:39.1 | Tony Morrison. She came home one day complaining about her job cleaning someone's house to her father. And she |
| 1:46.1 | expected her dad to get angry on her behalf or to pity her. And instead, he just said, listen, |
| 1:51.2 | you don't live there. You live here with your people. Go to work, get your money, and come on home. |
| 1:57.2 | What he was teaching her, Morrison later wrote, became a set of principles she based her life around. |
| 2:03.3 | Whatever the work, do it well. Not for the boss, but for yourself. You make the job. It doesn't make you. |
| 2:12.0 | Your real life is with us, your family. You are not the work you do. You are the person you are. What's in our control is how we do |
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