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Saturday, July 30, 2022
Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of July 25 - 31
PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
Life has a way of evening out, not in a yin and yang, karmic sense, but in the cyclical nature of systems, processes, incentives, pressures and so on. Power changes hands, tastes elevate and the moderate, prices go up and down, markets do what they do. Perspective helps you notice these cycles and not be spun around by them—or rather be spun around by our opinions about them.
It's our opinions about these things—the good and the bad—as the Stoics say, that upset us. And those are the only things we control.
In one of the most watched videos on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel this week, Ryan Holiday shares strategies for How To Manage Your Time Like A Stoic. These uniquely Stoic time management strategies will help you be more productive, more joyful, and more present in your everyday life. To start using the time you're given most effectively, you have to figure out what your time is worth, as Ryan elaborates:
"Seneca says, 'never give anyone an hour of your time without a return.' It doesn't mean that you don't ever be generous, you don't help people—it's not what it means at all. It means understanding that your life, your time, is your most precious resource. And every time you give it away, every time you spend it, you can never get it back. It's a non-renewable resource. So you have to understand, literally, what is an hour of your time worth? And then outsource things that cost less than what you get paid for that time."
On a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, Ryan Holiday interviewed renowned chef Kwame Onwuachi. The two talked about his book Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir, chasing down your curiosities, staying clam in chaotic environments, getting the best out of people, how to master any craft, having the courage to pursue your dreams, and what it really means to be courageous.
"Courage is being scared but continuing to go. It's not being this super overzealous person that jumps out and does things. You can still be afraid, but you continue to follow through—that's where courage lies."
"Tools are an important part of the human story. Our evolution is chronicled by the tools we've made. Stone Age. Bronze Age. The Industrial Revolution. Sure, in part it's because those tools are the remnants that survive us, waiting millennia to be unearthed along some riverbank, but it's also because our ability to shape the world around us is largely what's defined our species."
It's like lifting weights: if you can do it without trying, you're not going to get any stronger. The whole point—of life, of working out, of work—is to challenge yourself**, and to grow as a result of pushing against and through that resistance. We must take the advice Marcus gave himself in Meditations:
Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice.
Not everything that's hard is good of course, but almost everything good is hard.
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