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Stoicism I think like Marcus Surrealius is meditations is so informative on so many levels. I mean here you have somebody who is literally an emperor and he's writing this journal in a tent in a battle field.
So his perspective is amazing and he once wrote that the soul becomes died the color of its thoughts.
And I think about that all the time. The cost to me of living in a way that's inconsistent and not aligned with what feels right, what models the right thing for my children, what feels inherently true to me, it's too expensive.
“I mean look here's the thing she's totally right.”
That's exactly what Marcus really said that's exactly what stoicism is about. She's just not living or acting in accordance with it in any way. If you did you'd have an intervention with your dad who's life would be died with his horrible negative mean bullying thoughts all the time. Are you stupid? Are you stupid person?
You are a rude, terrible person you shouldn't be working for CNN.
Don't talk to me that way. You're just a lightweight. Kevin Newscom has admitted that he is learning disabilities. Elon Omar is garbage, she's garbage, her friends are garbage. So he's totally in coherent and he goes, ha, thank you.
I'll give you another great Marx relius quote Ivanka. He says waste no more time talking about what a good person is like just fucking B1. Look this is just obviously incredibly cringe, the sort of performative philosophy. The popularity of stoicism with people who have no idea that this is a philosophy built around an ethical core which justices the true north of the philosophy.
I'll tell you what stoicism is not, stoicism is not a way for you not to have to care about the consequences of the things that are happening around you. It's not a way to turn inward and turn away from other people from what's happening in the world, from not having to care. It's not, oh I'm just going to think nice thoughts so I can have a nice life.
I'm not going to let critics or criticism penetrate because then I'd have to, you know, actually make some changes or take some accountability or or stare in the face the reality of what I have been complicit in what I am responsible for Ivanka Trump quoting Marx relism. I mean, that's as I roll as you can get. The only similarity you have with the, the realiest family is that you're a communist and so your shitty brothers look,
nobody loves seeing people talk about Marx relis and stoicism more than me. This is what gets me out of bed in the morning. My life's work is getting people to pick up meditation. So that's awesome. I love to see it. Also, this is as cringe as it possibly gets, because it's not real and it's totally missing the point. You know, Marx relis wasn't just saying these things for his healthy. Was it just quoting random bits of
stoicism? He was trying to live it, right? Trying to live it, trying to put it into practice. That's the whole point of meditations. As I said, he's fighting to be the person that philosophy tried to make him not performatively, but in his private journal. These were reminders to himself to do better. And yes, sometimes they're about, you know, directing your thoughts properly, but most of the reminders in meditations are ethical reminders, reminders to be a better person,
to follow the stoic principles, to put them into practice, to be a better person than his job
His wealth would let him get away with being.
in the world. And he wrote obsessively about what that responsibility meant about justice,
“about not letting power corrupt you. The stoicism is not a brand. It's a practice. And it demands”
honesty, it demands self-awareness, it demands accountability, it demands doing the right thing
even when it costs you something, even when it's painful, even when it would mean, I don't know,
confronting your horrible family members. So no quoting, Marx really doesn't make you stoic,
“doesn't make you wise. You have to live and act with integrity. You have to be involved in”
public life in a way that is beyond reproach, in a way that contributes rather than extracts value from the government. [Music]
