The Daily Stoic - This Can Drive You Nuts, Or You Can Learn To Love It

Episode Date: May 24, 2023

You clean and then it gets dirty. You do the dishes and then five minutes later, the sink is full again. You made it through your inbox in the morning and by the time late afternoon strikes, you’re already digging yourself out again. Literally before you’ve even finished putting the dog’s toys away, they’re splayed out across the floor. Just as you put the finishing touches on that big project, another is dropped on your plate. You finally organize your kids’ clothes and now they’ve grown out of them.This can drive you nuts. Or you can learn to love it.✉️ 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.

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-year- old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailystow.com. You clean, and then it gets dirty. You do the dishes, and then five minutes later, the sink is full again. You've made it through your inbox in the morning and by the time late afternoon strikes,

you're already digging yourself out again. Literally, before you've even finished putting the dogs toys away, they've splaed them out across the floor. Just as you put the finishing touches on that big project, another is dropped on your lap. You finally organized your kids' clothes and now they've grown out of all of them. It's can drive you nuts, or you can learn to love it. Intubect Buddhist monks make beautiful mandalas out of sand. They spend hours, even days crafting these complex geometric designs,

only to wipe them clean and start over as soon as they're finished. And isn't that a way that we might see all the work we do? Might that be a way to go through life? It's not about cleaning the house or finishing this or that. It's about the mandala, an unending ephemeral process that we began again and again and again. In fact, that's what Marcus really has said again and again and again. The universe is nothing but change. Everything is constantly

influx. Nothing lasts. Some things are rushing into existence. Others out of it, you reminded himself. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change influx constantly remake the world just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity. The dishes, the desk, the dogs, toys, your inbox, the weight you lose and gain and lose. These things are never done or clean or organized or set. No entropy is always at work. You are at work.

Your growth is at work. So we should not feel exasperated or frustrated by it. We should love the flow of it. It's not work. We're doing its art. To be finished would mean the end of this, the end of our lives. No, we like that it's art. To be finished would mean the end of this, the end of our lives. No, we like that it's a little bit like Groundhog's Day because it means a chance to wake

up and live again, to do it beautifully, to do it well. Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke early and ad-free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts. Hey there listeners, while we take a little break here, I want to tell you about another podcast that I think you'll like. It's called How I Built This, where host Guy Razz talks to founders behind some of the world's biggest and most innovative companies, to learn how they built them from the ground up.

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