10 Notes From The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
1. Dont spend much time thinking about what other people think. Think about what you think. Think instead about the results, about the impact, about whether it is the right thing to do.
2. Someone is a good person not because they say they are, but because they take good actions. One does not magically get ones act togetherit is a matter of many individual choices. Its a matter of getting up at the right time, making your bed, resisting shortcuts, investing in yourself, doing your work.
3. The Stoics believed, above all else, that our job on this earth is to be a good human being. It is a basic duty, yet we are experts at coming up with excuses for avoiding it.
To quote Belichick again: Do your job.
4. We have a choice: Do we focus on the ways we have been wronged, or do we use what weve been given and get to work?
5. We not only owe it to ourselves to seek out this hard-won knowledge, we owe it to the people who took the time to record their experiences to try to carry on the traditions and follow their examplesto be the promising children of these noble parents.
6. Today, give yourself the most simple and doable of tasks: just dont make stuff worse. Whatever happens, dont add angry or negative emotions to the equation. Dont react for the sake of reacting. Leave it as it is. Stop digging. Then plan your way out.
7. Stoics do not seek to have the answer for every question or a plan for every contingency. Yet theyre also not worried. Why? Because they have confidence that theyll be able to adapt and change with the circumstances.
8. If you need help, comrade, just ask.
9. Whatever happens today, let it find us prepared and active: ready for problems, ready for difficulties, ready for people to behave in disappointing or confusing ways, ready to accept and make it work for us. Lets not wish we could turn back time or remake the universe according to our preference. Not when it would be far better and far easier to remake ourselves.
10. Nourish yourself and your mind and solve your problems along the way.
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