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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Each

2:07

day we bring you a meditation inspired

2:09

by the ancient Stoics illustrated with stories

2:11

from history, current events, and literature to

2:14

help you be better at what you

2:16

do. And at the

2:18

beginning of the week we try to do

2:20

a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic

2:22

intention for the week, something to meditate on,

2:24

something to think on, something to leave you

2:26

with, to journal about whatever it is you

2:28

happen to be doing. So

2:31

let's get into it. It

2:45

can make you better. It's too

2:47

simple to say that power corrupts. I

2:49

just realized this is a compelling example to

2:52

the contrary is absolute power seemed to have

2:54

actually made him better. He was never Caesarified,

2:56

never stained purple as he and others feared

2:58

might happen. And so for the

3:01

same reason, it's too simple to say that money is

3:03

the root of all evil is that it corrupts or

3:05

corrodes as a rule. There

3:08

are some people that money actually makes better. There

3:10

are some people who use what they earned or

3:12

inherited to do good. In

3:14

the middle of the 20th century, residents of

3:17

Southern towns like Plains, Georgia were pressured to

3:19

join a white citizens council, a

3:21

racist group only slightly less insidious than the

3:23

clan. They were pressured to resist

3:26

integration in their churches. Jimmy

3:28

Carter, who's entrepreneurial savvy had turned his

3:30

family farm into a well run lucrative

3:32

business would later reflect why he and

3:34

his family were able to ignore the

3:37

social intimidation that many of his neighbors

3:39

fell prey to. We had

3:41

too much money to be ostracized. He said

3:43

of his church, we were the biggest contributors.

3:46

And to the white citizens council, he told them that

3:48

he'd rather flush $5 down the toilet than give it

3:51

to them. Carter's wife

3:53

June, who kept the books for their business, knew

3:55

that this remark would be bad for their bottom

3:57

line. That was the implicit threat

3:59

to anyone. who didn't join, but they decided

4:01

together that they could afford it. They decided

4:03

it was worth it. The

4:05

idea is what's the point of success if it doesn't

4:07

free you up to do the right thing? If your

4:10

money doesn't actually give you the security to tell a

4:12

jerk or a racist to go to hell, how

4:14

much is it actually worth? The Stoics

4:16

said that money, like power, was neither good nor

4:18

bad, that having it itself was not

4:20

virtuous, but they also believed that it was better

4:23

to have than not, especially if

4:25

it's facilitated being able to act on

4:27

your virtues as Carter did, as

4:29

Marcus did. It was hard

4:31

to earn what you have. You want to be a

4:33

good steward of your money. Great.

4:35

So what better place to spend it on than

4:37

being good than by taking stands with and through

4:40

it? If your money doesn't make

4:42

you better, if it costs you your soul or your

4:44

conscience, is it really worth it? And

4:47

so when we built this course that we put

4:49

out there recently, The Wealthy Stoic, The

4:51

Daily Stoic Guide to Being Rich and Free and Happy, I think

4:53

a lot of people thought we were talking about how

4:56

just to accumulate money. And we were

4:58

talking about how to be wealthy in the way that

5:01

Carter was in this scenario, to

5:03

be independent enough, to be secure enough because of

5:05

what you've earned and because of what you've done

5:08

to do what you think you ought to do, not

5:10

what other people want you

5:12

to do, not what everyone else does

5:15

by default. That's

5:17

what the course is about. It was a live course that

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ran earlier this year. It was a huge success. We got

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lots of feedback. Now you can go through

5:24

it also. Over the next

5:26

nine weeks, it'll walk you through the

5:28

ambitions and motivations that fueled the very

5:30

wealthy stoics, how a wealthy

5:33

stoic spends and saves money, discovering

5:35

your own definition of wealth or success, with

5:38

the stoic's prize above money, how

5:40

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5:42

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5:44

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6:23

Don't tell. This is this week's and

6:25

in the Daily Still Journal. Three hundred

6:27

and sixty six days of writing and

6:29

reflection. The art of Live In. The

6:32

Art of Living isn't a set of

6:34

teachings or a formula we can memorize.

6:37

It's a practice that requires constant

6:39

work. Ethic Cheetahs was constantly

6:41

reminded his students not to parrot fact

6:43

what they learned in lecture hall or

6:45

read in books. But. To put

6:47

that work into practice. He

6:49

knew that progress you could see was

6:52

better than any proclaimed. Let.

6:54

Your journal and and thinking this week exhibit

6:56

what you have done and what you are

6:58

doing, not what you plan to do or

7:01

since you. Let. It be a catalogue

7:03

of your actions. Good. Actions.

7:06

As Epic to the says, those who

7:08

received the Bear series immediately want to

7:10

spew them as an upset stomach does

7:13

with it's food. First, digest your theories

7:15

and you won't throw up. Otherwise,

7:18

they will be raw, spoiled, and not

7:20

nourish him. After you've digested

7:22

them, show us the changes in

7:24

your reasons choices. I've the shoulders

7:26

of gymnasts who display their diet

7:28

in training. And. The craft of

7:30

artisans show what they have learned. As

7:33

apathy, this is Discourses Three Twenty One.

7:36

First. Practice not letting people know

7:38

who you are. Keep your philosophy it

7:40

yourself for a bit. In

7:43

just a manner that fruit is produced, the

7:45

seed is buried for a season hidden, growing

7:47

gradually so it may come to full maturity.

7:50

But. It's a grain sprouts. Before the stock

7:52

is fully developed, it will never ripen. That.

7:55

Is the kind of plant you are displaying

7:57

fruit too soon. And the winter.

8:00

They'll kill you. You

8:02

know, this is a theme the Stokes talk about

8:04

quite a bit, the idea of conceit being the

8:06

impediment. To improvement That

8:08

ego is the enemy.

8:11

And you know, when I look back in

8:13

I've first introduced the stocks now at fifteen

8:15

or so years ago. I look back

8:17

at some my early writings and I'm doing

8:19

exactly what Epic he does is talk about

8:21

I'm just regurgitating. Seems. That

8:24

I've heard I'm in that exercise itself

8:26

was was educational but I I didn't

8:28

even begin to comprehend what I was

8:30

talking about. It took time. It's of

8:32

experience as to talk says it's it's

8:34

not that words the give us the

8:36

experience that the meaning of experiences but

8:38

experiences that give us meeting of the

8:40

words. And. So I wish I'd

8:42

taken a bit more now. This

8:45

is obviously what some the social media blogging platform.

8:47

Still it's a way of thinking out loud. But.

8:49

I actually wish I'd taken more sort

8:51

of quiet reflective time. To. Myself.

8:54

I think we do it. We do this whenever

8:56

we discover something We get some products like or.

8:58

To I know movement are cause we like and

9:01

suddenly we become this Evangelist for it and I

9:03

think part of that is out of insecurity right?

9:06

We want other people to like it's, we don't

9:08

We're not quite sure what we think of it

9:10

ourselves, so I bring other people on. Wifi,

9:13

A lesson secure We go see I'm not crazy Other

9:15

people like a to. For this

9:17

is slow down a little bit. Of your

9:19

listeners part. As for the first time in

9:21

new to stoicism. Let's do a

9:24

little bits. Think about it a little bit,

9:26

look at it critically, find out what's wrong

9:28

to go read more about it. right?

9:30

Find people who love stoicism. People

9:32

who hate stoicism. Consuming and different

9:35

mediums. The Just Explored. You

9:37

don't have to convert, you don't have

9:39

to absorb, you don't have to identify

9:41

yet. You. Know, Just just keep

9:44

thinking, Let it. Remain. Under

9:46

ground let it germinate. But.

9:49

It's solidify their and then when it comes

9:51

out it'll It'll be enough. in in better

9:53

shape and and better form. And. So

9:55

as you work on your practice, you know.

9:58

You. Don't have to put on airs. Attitude is

10:00

talks about the don't put on airs about

10:02

your self improvement. he says he humble about

10:04

it. You. Know I I. I definitely

10:06

wish there was things that I hadn't said that

10:09

I thought about longer. That. I

10:11

took time to think about privately more. And

10:13

that's probably most of my regrets on

10:15

any social media platforms. I I jumped.

10:17

I left out with my opinion instead

10:19

of sitting on it's doing on thinking

10:21

wedding to Germinate. And. And I

10:23

think that process is just really

10:26

valuable. Slow down. That's the advice

10:28

of this week's meditation slowdown. seemed

10:30

really mole it over, turn it

10:32

over in your mind. And.

10:35

The. Plant will be stronger for it. You will be stronger

10:37

for it. Your wisdom will be better for it. That's

10:40

what we're working on. Anyways, Stay.

10:42

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