The Daily Stoic - It Will Be Enough (Whether You Like It Or Not)

Episode Date: May 6, 2022

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Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics illustrated with stories from history, current events and literature to help you be better at what you do. And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoic intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave you with, to journal about, whatever it is, you happen to be doing. So let's get into it. It will be enough, whether you like it or not.

In the center of his mansion, Tony Montana has a motto mounted on a statue. The world is not enough. And while this was, and remains both an embodiment and a criticism of the kind of perverted version of the modern American dream, it's also a timeless idea that goes back even before the Stoics. The world was not big enough to contain Alexander the Great, the poet Juvenile wrote, yet in the end, coffin was.

Isn't that how it went for Tony Montana too, going down in a hail of bullets beside a mountain of cocaine? It's wonderful to have big dreams. It's wonderful to try to stretch and reach your potential, particularly if no one believes in you or thinks you capable of anything. But in say, shability, greed, depravity, in the pursuit of that destiny?

Well, it's not nearly as glamorous as you think it's going to be. Tony Montana wasn't having any fun at the end, neither was Alexander. One suspects that Sennaka came to understand that too, and certainly Epic Titus watching both Sennaka and Nero from his slave quarters in the palace must have shook his head at their excesses. We think that our wealth will free us instead, it can turn into a kind of prison. We think our ambition is a blessing,

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