6 Stoic Rules To Beat Ego

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. You don't need to be an egotistical asshole to be successful. Are there a lot of egotistical assholes who are successful? Sure, but there's also quite a few catastrophic failures who were Caligula, Nero, Xerxes, Mussolini, and then of course business and art, entertainment show us the truth of the old Greek saying that whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make proud.

And so for the Stoics, the antidote to this was humility, was self-awareness, was introspection, was reflection. And that's what we're going to talk about in today's episode. Not just the dangers of ego, but timeless practices. They help sweep it away, that help you get clean and stay good. My first squadron, there was a lot of jockeying for position with the young pilots, the lieutenants, the captains.

You're friends with everyone. Like you trust that person with your life, super tight-knit, but you're also very aware of how everyone's doing. You don't want to be made to look bad. And I think a lot of it is like you feel like you're really establishing your reputation in this career field you're going to be in for a decade. Yeah.

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