43 Stoic Rules That Will Change How You Live
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Most people philosophy is impractical, it's theoretical, it's inaccessible, it's a bunch of names. They can't pronounce. А better way to think of Philosophy is a framework for living. The ancients would say that philosophy was the guide. To the good life, and I think of all the philosophical schools, stoicism is not just the best, it is the clearest. And so in today's episode I want to give you rules for life from
Ancient skelet straightforward actionable Clear tenets and principles for dealing with the ups and downs of life and becoming the person that you are capable of. of feeding. These are all ideas that I talk about in the Daily Stoic, which is really three hundred and sixty five uh lessons from the stoics that can apply to your life. But we're not gonna get into all of those today. Just gonna get into some protest. First and most important task in life, the January 1st entry in the Daily Stoic, is the basic premise of stoic philosophy. There's some stuff that's in our control and some stuff that's not in our control. And the chief task in life, Epic Tis says, is to know the difference between these two things. Is it up to me? Is it not up to me?
If it is up to you, it's gotta get 100% of your energy in focus. It's not up to you. You have to learn how to become indifferent. To it, we are wasting our energy on things that are not up to us, and we should be directing that energy on the stuff that is up to us. You have to learn how to be ruthless to the things that don't matter. Seneca talks about how things are are laying Waste to our life, right? We get caught up in things, we chase things, we follow things. That don't matter, that aren't
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