The Daily Stoic - Investigate Yourself First
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Investigate yourself first. The world is full of mysteries.
There's so much to learn, so much to discover.
There are libraries of things to read about.
Every day brings countless news stories to follow.
Do UFOs exist?
What's going on with this scandal or that one?
Who do you think is to blame for this or that?
And while the Stoics were certainly curious and intellectual people, they tried to ignore a lot of that.
Why?
Because they had plenty of other questions
they needed answers to first,
questions that pertain more to self-awareness
and self-actualization than being informed.
In fact, I am dealing with those more important issues,
Seneca wrote, the ones that soothe the mind,
and I investigate myself first, and then, he said,
the cosmos.
Look, the man was a plugged-in power broker
who also published a multi-volume series
on natural history and biology,
so he was hardly ignorant.
He just tried to remind himself
that his first job was to understand himself,
was to solve the problems of living
before he then distracted himself
with the issues of the universe.
In our very busy, very noisy, and very confusing modern world, this is a great model to follow.
We ought to investigate ourselves first, get to the bottom of what's happening in here
first rather than obsess about and despair over what's happening out there.
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