It’s Not a Principle If It Doesn’t Cost You
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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. It's easy to say you have values, it's easy to pay lip service to values. The problem is when those values costs you something. In fact, there's an expression, it's not a principle unless it costs you money.
Okay, so imagine having a principle you care so deeply about that you're willing to forgo $17 million. Imagine having a principle more dear to you than $17 million. And that principle, loyalty, gratitude, to stick to it in a notorious cutthroat business when you know almost certainly that that loyalty and gratitude won't be returned. Like imagine turning down that kind of money, $17 million, and not $17 million in today's money, but $17 million 25 years ago. when in professional sports, that was an incredibly large contract.
John Amachi was an NBA player and he turned down that money from the Los Angeles Lakers to stay with the Orlando Magic. Why would somebody do something like that? That's what I wanted to ask him and here's what he told me. So I played with the Orlando Magic for a year. I did
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