Stoic Living: How to Think Clearly, Live Purposefully, and Remain Unshaken: 1

Your mind will tell you to quit. It will sound like the most reasonable voice in the room. Not today - you're tired. Better to wait until things settle down. Be realistic. Every one of those can be true. That is exactly why they work. Two thousand years ago a Roman emperor writing by lamplight in a war camp, a former slave teaching in exile, and a statesman who lost almost everything were all working on the problem you had this morning: the distance between what you know you should do and what you actually do. Stoic Living is sixty short pieces about that distance. Not a system, and not a promise that you will become unbreakable - there is no such person.- Why anger cannot survive a delay- Why most of what you dread you are already living through in advance, for free- Why the story you keep telling about yourself is a permission slip, not a fact- What it costs to be right, and when to pay it- Why rest is part of the work rather than a reward for finishing itEvery piece ends with one small practice. Two minutes, three lines, one sentence said out loud - because done is the only thing that has ever changed anyone. Every quotation is traced to a primary text and cited to the work and section it came from. This subject is unusually full of lines attributed to people who never wrote them; none of those are in here. Open it anywhere. Read it front to back, or on a bad Tuesday. From the creator of the You vs Your Mind channel. Volume I of The Stoic Living Collection.