16 Brutally Honest Stoic Reminders

One of the things the stoics didn't do was mess around. And they certainly didn't beat around the bush. That was something that Marcus Aurelius Hated. He said he he hated people who said, Let me be honest with you here. He said, You should just be honest all the time. You should come out and say What you mean. Even if that might offend some people, even if it might hurt. Some feelings. That's what we're gonna talk about in today's video. Some harsh But essential truths about life that the Stoics want you to know. That the Stoics not only weren't afraid to say, but no needed.

to be set. These lessons aren't necessarily gonna make you feel warm and fuzzy inside. They might challenge some of your most deeply held assumptions, and they might make you feel A little rough, but ultimately I'm very confident they're gonna make you better. And by the way, these are all lessons that come from the new 10th anniversary edition of the Daily Stoic. She sold more than three million copies in 40 languages. You are wasting your life. Seneca said, You are letting people lay waste to your life. He says you're wasting it in pointless grief and foolish joy and greedy desire and social amusements. Says how much a little of your own life was left to you. You are dying before. Your time. Look, I get it. It's hard to say no. Feels like you're gonna hurt someone's feelings, it feels like you're gonna miss out. But if you don't say no to invitations, to requests, to the stuff that everyone else is doing, you're not gonna be able to say yes to the things that you should Be doing. I know it's even harder to say no to certain time-consuming emotions from anger to excitement to distraction, obsession.

Lust. And while none of these impulses or commitments feel like A big deal they add up, and then there's so very little left. And if you're not careful, if you are always saying yes and you have not learned how to say no. How to be ruthless to the things that don't matter, you will die, as Seneca said before. Your Mike.

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