How To Think For Yourself In A World Full Of Lies | David Pakman
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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. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. Like you don't have to be smart to consume information, right? Consuming is passive.
Turn on the TV, turn on a podcast, scroll on your phone, you pick up a book or go to a reputable media site. Obviously, these are different levels of media consumption, but at some level they're all kind of passive. And and a lot of people do them. What people do less is step back and go, is this true?
Where did it come from? Do I want this to be true? Am I fooling myself? What's the agenda of the person saying this? There's a famous expression attributed to Cicero, qui bono, basically, who benefits, right?
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