The Daily Stoic - The Best Don’t Care About Winning

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

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For more, you can visit us at dailystoweth.com. The best don't care about winning. It's a strange paradox. The people who are most successful in life who accomplish the most, who dominate their professions don't care that much about winning. Certainly, they talk about it less. How could that be? It's that they're after something higher than that.

They are after what post-Sodonius and early Stoic told the great Roman general Pompey, as I talk about in lives of the Stoics, their goal is to be best, not the best, but best. They're after mastery, self-mastory, they're after maximizing their potential. Marcus really wasn't measuring his accomplishments as emperor against the great conquerors of the past, although he certainly intended to win the war as he was forced to fight. Instead

his aim was higher. He wanted to be good, to be decent, to be in command of himself, to live up to the man that philosophy tried to make him. Winning is like being rich. It's nice, but it's not something in your control day to day. What is in your control is showing up, giving maximum effort following your training, sticking to your principles, pursuing your calling. If that translates to on the field success, great.

In fact, it almost always does. If that translates into career recognition, awesome. And again, it usually does. But sometimes so does the opposite of those things. And that's why we, as Stoics, hold ourselves to a higher standard. We measure ourselves by an internal scorecard. And trusting in that, we know that the rest will take care of itself. Daily Stoke is raising money for feeding America. Last year, the Daily Stoke community came together

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