It’s So Hard To Find | Stop Looking For This

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey there, just a heads up, I'm going to be on tour this fall. You can see me in Australia and New Zealand in October. In August, I'm mixing my months up here, but in August you can see me in Chicago, in Minneapolis, and Detroit. That'll be on the East Coast sometime in November and December.

Anyways, grab tickets to that, dailystoiclive.com. Hope to see you there. It is so hard to find. You think it would be easy. After all, they have the time, they have the resources, they usually have the brain power and the education.

And yet the writers of A Satisfied Mind, a song that's been covered by Bob Dylan and Jeff Buckley and Bonnie Vera, to name a few, are absolutely right. In fact, they sound like they're quoting Seneca when they sing, but little they know that it's so hard to find one rich man in ten with a satisfied mind. Why is this? Well, as the Stoics, many of them fortunate and wealthy, knew very well, money brings anxiety in many forms. fear you will lose it, worry that someone else has more, insecurity that people are judging you, the stress of having so many choices, all the things to take care of.

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