No Time Like The Present To Drink These Draining Seconds | The Most Secure Fortress
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Why does the present moment matter for living a Stoic life?
Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. No time like the present to drink these draining seconds. May not feel like it, but it's slipping away from you. It's slipping away from all of us. All of it. This period of our lives and our lives themselves. The present moment is an ephemeral thing, the ancients said. There was even an expression adapted from Virgil, tempest fugit, or time flies, and it does, away from us. While we are anxiously fretting about the future or ruefully. Regretting the past, we are losing what is in front of us. The important conversations we aren't having, the changes we aren't making.
The work we aren't investing in. Seneca talked about how death is not something in the future but something happening right now. Can't waste it. We can't let it pass us by. We have to live immediately, he said.
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We have to be here now. There is no time like the present really because there is no time but the present. These seconds are draining away whether we use them or not. So use them. Have the conversation. Make the change. Do the work. Be here while you are still here.
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How much more unconquerable if its judgments are careful and made rationally? Therefore the mind free from passions is an impenetrable fortress. A person has no more secure place of refuge for all time. Marcus Aurelius' Meditations eight hundred forty eight and I'm reading to you today from the Daily Stoic three hundred and sixty six Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art of Living.
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Chapters
8 chapters
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Why does the present moment matter for living a Stoic life?
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How does the Wealthfront highβyield cash account help you stop wasting time on money?
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What cool sleep technology can keep you comfortable during Texas heat?
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How does Marcus Aurelius describe the mind as an unconquerable fortress?
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Why does practicing one skill thousands of times beat many different skills once?
4:44β5:54
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How can recognizing mental loops improve your emotional responses?
5:54β7:06
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What family patterns create feedback loops and how can you break them?
7:06β8:10
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How can you train your mind like a muscle to build better habits?
8:10β9:03
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