BONUS | 11 Things Stoics Never Do

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. If you want to be a better person, if you want to be a happier person, if you want to be a more productive person, hear all the things the Stoics want you to stop. doing right now. Number one, stop focusing on things that are outside your control. This is our main task in life, Epic T, this is to know what's up to us and what's not up to us.

Number two, stop doing the inessential things. Mark Strudley says when we say no to what we shouldn't be doing, we get the double benefit of doing the essential things better. Number three, from Seneca, stop being distracted by what other people are doing. He said you want to have a sense of the path that you're on, and he says not to be led off course by the people who are hopelessly lost.

Number four, from Zeno, let's talk more than we listen. He said, we have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Number five, stop complaining. Marcus Realis admonished himself not only not to complain, but Not even to complain silently to himself.

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