The Daily Stoic - This is How You Know It’s Working

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Starting point is 00:02:21 This stoicism thing, you've been following it for a while, but how do you know? How do you know it's? it's working. There will be signs you can count on that. One of them, Epictetus tells us, is that you should be getting in fewer arguments. Another from Seneca is that you're a better friend to yourself. Marcus Aurelius in Meditations talks about being able to sit in the perfect stillness about not being pulled and torn in a million directions. This might not all sound like wisdom, but it is. The point of wisdom, the point of philosophy, was to get to a smooth flow of life,

Starting point is 00:02:56 the Stoics believed to be able to live in accordance with nature. That means prising the right things. That means seeing the big picture. That means abstaining from the wrong things. It means tuning out what doesn't matter. It means wisdom. And the one thing we know about wisdom is that you have to work for it. Seneca said, no man is wise by chance.

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The Daily Stoic - This is How You Know It’s Working

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