In The Resolute Urgency of Now | Finding The Right Mentors
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What is the resolute urgency of now?
Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. In the resolute urgency of now, we could do it later. We could get serious later. We could wait for things to settle down. We could wait for better terms. We could wait until we feel better. But why? Why not do it while we have the chance? Why not get it started? Why not get it over with? The Smashing Pumpkins famously sang about the resolute urgency of now. And that is what we face. That is what is slipping away from us. The future lies in uncertainty, Seneca said, so we must live immediately. We have to match the swiftness of time, he believed, with the quickness of our own action and our own choice.
Why should we act immediately instead of waiting?
We do not have the luxury of dragging our feet or putting things off, or we will be passed by and miss our opportunity. Today is for certain. Today is before you. Things are settled enough. You must be serious now. This is your chance.
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How can we match the swiftness of time with our actions?
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He says, we like to say that we don't get to choose our parents, that they were given to us by chance. Yet we can truly choose whose children we would like to be.
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