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Saturday, January 28, 2023
Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of January 23-29
Before we get into this week's Stoic Review, we have an exciting announcement: we're re-launching the Daily Stoic New Year New You Challenge! Typically, the New Year New You Challenge is a live challenge for the first three weeks of the new year. But this year we heard from a ton of people that either came back from vacation late or procrastinated or changed their minds or stumbled on their resolutions. So for the first time ever, we're bringing the New Year New You Challenge back for a second session.
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What a wonderful way of putting it. It's not about how rich you are. It's not about how famous you are. It's not about how many trophies you've won.
No, to the Stoics the point of this work was something simpler, something within everyone's reach: to not waste time. To be in control of one's life, rather than in the sway of ambition or distraction or temptation. To get clear on what we want to do, when we want to do it, and who we want to do it with. To never, as we've said, wish away a minute of life. To make good use of every minute—that is greatness.
"Iron Maiden is actually who I've based my career on. They changed how I think about art and creativity. There's this amazing quote from Bruce Dickinson, 'Iron Maiden has our field and that's what we plow. We can only plow one field at a time; we don't care what anyone else is doing with their field.' And that's how this band has lasted for 40 years and built this huge underground community of millions of people all over the world…It takes an immense amount of discipline to focus on your field. In one of the most beautiful passages in Seneca's writing, he talks about the sense of being on your path and not being distracted by the paths that crisscross yours— especially from those who are hopelessly lost…I try to focus on what I do, how I do it, what gets me excited, and what fulfills me. Not what's hot right now, not what's working on the best-seller list right now. I try to be disciplined enough to stay on my field, in my lane, on my path."
"The difference between a brave man and a coward is very simple. It is a problem of love. A coward loves only himself…a coward cares only for his own body," Toshaway said, "and he loves it above all other things. The brave man loves other men first and himself last."
One of the best passages that survives from Meditations is worth applying to our own lives day to day, moment to moment:
"Most of what we say and do is not essential," he writes. "If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'"
Most of what we do is not essential. Most of it is instinctual or it was foisted on us by someone else. Most of it isn't actually working for us. We might be better and happier if we changed. We might have more tranquility if we did less, as Marcus said.
Join us for two enlightened evenings of conversation and insight as #1 New York Times Bestselling Authors Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday discuss distilling and adapting ancient wisdom and philosophy for those who seek to understand and master Power, Seduction, Ego and Destiny!
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