This Is How You Change | What Is Our Duty To Society?

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. This is how you change. Changing habits is hard. It takes willpower, it means discomfort, it means doing some stuff you don't want to do. means not doing stuff you want to do.

Discipline is not exactly an easy virtue. It's not always a fun virtue. But it's wrong to think that change in discipline is about force, that it's about strictness, that it's all about struggle. When we interviewed Dr. Claire Carlyle Tresh about her award-winning book on habit, one of the things we asked were were for tactics she recommends to people who want to quit a bad habit.

And she said there's actually a really important mindset. She said, The habit is for the moment part of you, and it's essential that you treat it with kindness and gentleness rather than as an enemy or a monster. Otherwise you turn your own soul or psyche or mind into a battleground. The habit needs to be accepted without being indulged, she said. Okay, it's here.

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