It’s So Hard To Find | Stop Looking For This
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey there, just a heads up. I'm gonna be on tour this fall. You can see me in Australia, in New Zealand, in October, in August. I'm mixing my months up here, but in August, you can see me in Chicago, in Minneapolis, in Detroit. Then I'll be on the East Coast sometime in November and December. Anyways, grab tickets to that, dailystoiclive.com. Hope to see you there. It is so hard to find. You think it would be easy. After all, they have the time, they have the resources, they usually have the brainpower and the education. And yet the writers of A Satisfied Mind, a song that's been covered by Bob Dylan and Jeff Buckley and Bon Iver, to name a few, are absolutely right.
In fact, they sound like they're quoting Seneca when they sing, but little they know that it's so hard to find one rich man in 10 with a satisfied mind. Why is this? Well, as the Stoics, many of them fortunate and wealthy, knew very well, money brings anxiety in many forms. Fear you'll lose it. Worry that someone else has more. Insecurity that people are judging you. The stress of having so many choices. All the things to take care of. It's certainly a better problem than having too little. But having too much is still a problem. and not one that automatically leads to peace or contentment. The ability to be content, to be grateful, to be at peace, these are real luxuries, if you think about it, because they're so rare.
Apparently, 9 out of 10 rich people can't even afford them.
So apparently everybody that works for us at the bookstore and daily stoic is, uh, is using whatnot. And I guess I'm out of the loop, but once you flip open the app, you see why there's something like super exciting about live sales. Like, Whoa, you can get this right now that they're talking about it right now. And the sellers look like they're having fun. And, you know, it's not edited photos and videos like you see it right there in the seller's hands. It's like a really cool estate sale or like the coolest fair you've ever been at. And that's just not what the online shopping experience is normally like. Check it out today. Just search Whatnot, W-H-A-T-N-O-T in the App Store. Download it and you can start selling right away.
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