The Daily Stoic - Do You Have This Kind of Clarity?

Episode Date: May 17, 2023

Warren Buffett, whose net worth is north of $100 billion, lives in the same house he bought in 1958 for $31,500. The NFL lineman turned mathematician John Urschel is worth millions but manage...s to live on $25,000 a year. Well past signing a $94 million dollar contract, the NBA star Kawhi Leonard drove the 1997 Chevy Tahoe he had since he was a teenager.Cato, who came from a wealthy and powerful family, walked around bareheaded and barefooted and generally abstained from unnecessary luxuries. He could have afforded to do otherwise, he chose not to. “Nothing is cheap,” his great-grandfather had famously said, “if it is superfluous.”Some might say these men were just cheap, but that’s too simple and too unfair.💵 Visit dailystoic.com/wealth to sign up for The Wealthy Stoic.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000 yearold philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailystoweth.com. Do you have this kind of clarity?
Starting point is 00:00:40 Warren Buffett, whose net worth is north of $100 billion, lives in the same house that he bought in 1958 for $31,000. The NFL lineman turned mathematician John Urschel is worth millions, but manages to live on 25 grand a year. Well past signing, a very large contract, the NBA star Kauai Leonard drove the 1997 Chevy Tahoe that he had since he was a teenager. Kato, who came from a wealthy and powerful family, walked around bare-headed and bare-footed and generally abstained from unnecessary luxuries.
Starting point is 00:01:13 He could have afforded to do otherwise, but he chose not to. Nothing is cheap. His great-grandfather had famously said, if it is superfluous. Some might say that these men were just cheap, but that's too simple and too unfair. These successful people didn't get where they are by accident. Their success is the result of prioritizing. The things that are important to them are cheap. The rest of what they earn is extra. They don't turn that extra down, of course. They just keep their head down. They do what they do. And the result is that wealth grows in compounds.
Starting point is 00:01:48 They add to it with the work they do. They also invest it sensibly. They let time do its work on it. And this kind of clarity about what they love most in the world about what actually moves the needle in the world. This means they can enjoy their lives. And through even the ups and downs of the markets and athletics and politics, they are rich in all senses of the word.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Don't you deserve that? Isn't that what you are actually after? It's got to be. Well, this kind of clarity through prioritization and smart decisions and discipline is one of the things I hope you'll come away with in our new course, The Wealthy Stoic, a daily Stoic guide to being rich and free and happy. Over the next nine weeks, it's one of our longest course. It's like our great leadership course that people have loved. There's a bunch of emails every week,
Starting point is 00:02:40 nearly a book's worth of content. There's videos, there's prompts, there's deep dives. There's gonna be live Q&As with me and so much more. You're gonna get a bunch of resources and tools that will help you on your path to becoming rich and free and happy in all senses of that word. We're gonna dig into my journey. You can ask me questions. And I'm just really excited to share this one with you.
Starting point is 00:03:01 It's a live course. It's gonna start really soon. So you've gotta sign up. I'd love to have one with you. It's a live course. It's gonna start really soon. So you've gotta sign up. I'd love to have you with us. You can sign up at dailystilic.com slash wealth. Or just go to store.dailystilic.com. I'll also link to it in today's show notes, but I'm excited to have you in this one with us.
Starting point is 00:03:17 Time is running out. So join us, invest in yourself, and let's go from there. Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to the Daily Stoic early and add free on Amazon music, download the Amazon music app today, or you can listen early and add free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts. Celebrity feuds are high stakes. You never know if you're just going to end up on Page Six or Du Moir or in court. I'm Matt Bellesai.
Starting point is 00:04:01 And I'm Sydney Battle, and we're the host of Wonder E's new podcast, Dis and Tell, where each episode we unpack a different iconic celebrity feud. From the build up, why it happened, and the repercussions. What does our obsession with these feud say about us? The first season is packed with some pretty messy pop culture drama, but none is drawn out in personal as Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears. When Britney's fans form the free Britney movement dedicated to fring her from the infamous conservatorship, Jamie Lynn's lack of public support, it angered some fans, a lot of them.
Starting point is 00:04:33 It's a story of two young women who had their choices taken away from them by their controlling parents, but took their anger out on each other. And it's about a movement to save a superstar, which set its sights upon anyone who failed to fight for Brittany. Follow Dissentel wherever you get your podcast. You can listen ad-free on Amazon Music or the Wondering app.

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