You Must Do This Dance | Cultivate Indifference
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🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
While most of us will never be an emperor or a rock star, we can imagine what it would be like.
It would be so abnormal as to be dehumanizing. Indeed, this is what a lot of famous people say—that they often feel like an animal at a zoo.
The point isn’t to say that we should pity famous people or even that we should try to avoid fame. The point is to say that, when we come across a famous person who seems to have stayed normal, we should learn how they did it.
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And in todays Daily Stoic Journal reading, Ryan discusses the power of cultivating a certain type of indifference towards the struggles that enter into our lives.
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| 1:19.9 | You must do this dance. Well most of us will never be an emperor or rock star, we can |
| 1:25.5 | imagine what it would be like. We can imagine what it would be like to be recognized everywhere |
| 1:30.0 | we go, to have thousands or even millions of people chant our name, to be constantly |
| 1:34.9 | interrupted by a fan wanting the photo to try to put on a disguise to go grocery shopping. |
| 1:40.4 | It would be so abnormal as to be dehumanizing. Indeed this is what a lot of famous people |
| 1:44.8 | say, they say it feels like being an animal in the zoo. |
| 1:49.3 | The point here isn't to say that we should pity famous people or even that we should |
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