A Sense of Urgency. A Sense of Urgency. | Practice True Joy
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. A sense of urgency, a sense of urgency. It's remarkable. It's sad. It's entitled and irresponsible.
Even though things are moving very quickly, even though Tempest bugit time flies, people are taking it slowly. People are hemming and hawing. People are putting things off. People are acting like they can afford to do this, as if they are not paying for their indecision and their slowness and their pocketbook. and with their life.
The Smashing Pumpkins sang about how we had to live and love tonight, great lyric, in the resolute urgency of now. In the kitchen of per se there's the famous sign, a sense of urgency, and it's mounted beneath the clock. And I think both these reminders are essential, and and so is Seneca's. The whole future lies in uncertainty. Live immediately,
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