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Saturday, May 20, 2023
Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of May 15-21
Stoicism was designed to live what the ancients called 'The Good Life.' It's daily practices were there to teach people how to thrive, how to succeed, and how to live a rich and happy life in any and all circumstances. That's why we created our latest course built around these Stoic ideas: The Wealthy Stoic: A Daily Stoic Guide To Being Rich, Free, and Happy.
This 9-week course will include 3 Wealthy Stoic Deep Dives where Ryan Holiday will be joined by a guest to discuss their hard-won lessons on that week's theme, and take questions from you. This course starts June 5. Go to dailystoic.com/wealth to sign up.
PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
"These successful people didn't get to where they are by accident. Their success is the result of prioritizing. The things that are important to them are cheap, the rest of what they earn is extra. They don't turn that extra down of course, they just keep their head down, do what they do, and the result is that that wealth grows and compounds. Their work generates income, their frugality means that income is saved and then invested and the prudent investments pay off over the long term. Their discipline, their focus, plus the power of time adds up to something huge."
In a recent episode on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel, Ryan shares how the Stoics stop worrying about things outside of our control. We can still control our response to our circumstances because our anxiety comes from ourselves:
"The Stoics would say stuff goes wrong. Stuff goes sideways. But we always have this opportunity to practice the four virtues: Courage, temperance, justice, wisdom. It's not that there's nothing bad in the world…but when it does happen, it is nevertheless an opportunity to step up…"
In a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with writer Kevin Kelly on parenting, the importance of mistakes, doing things your own way, publishing books, working through discomfort with courage, and more:
"You don't want to burn bridges behind you. You don't want to step into something that reduces your options…I would emphasize this idea of prototyping your life instead of making grand decisions. Most decisions are reversible….Knowing that most decisions are reversible is freeing."
Every time you find yourself irritated or angry with someone, the one to look at is not that person but yourself. The question to ask is not, 'What's wrong with this person?' but 'What does this irritation tell me about myself?'
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