This is How You Have To See (and Respond To) Things | Becoming An Expert In What Matters

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“This is how you have to see and respond to things.”

You just got the news, you just figured out that something isn't possible, you just failed, you just got passed over. I guess really wrote about moments exactly like this in meditations. Something happened. He writes, "Good, it was meant for you by nature," he said, "Well, run into the pattern

from the beginning." Instead of lamenting it, instead of fighting it, instead of wondering why it went this way, instead of that way, is saying we have to embrace it. See it as something happening for you and not to you. Life is short.

He writes that.

All there is to say, "So try to be a good person, try to do good, to do the right thing.

Don't waste time complaining. Don't waste time wishing or hoping." Remember, he says, "If was woven into the pattern from the beginning, so get to work." That's actually what we've been talking about all month here. This is Meditations Month at Daily Stoic.

This is the monthmarked serious response. We just kind of do this deep dive into meditations and we're kind of doing a book club about meditations, which I'd love to have you join. If you haven't read Meditations, you don't know where to start. Or maybe you read it and you put it down, you didn't totally get it.

“I think this would be an awesome place to start and at the end of the month, right after”

marks the realist's birthday, we're all going to dive in and do a discussion of it together. It's going to be awesome. I can't wait to see you in there. You can sign up right now and you get it for free if you buy our leather edition of Meditations. Anyways, I'm excited to see you in there, DailyStolic.com/Meditations.

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The things that people manage to become experts in, fantasy sports, celebrity trivia, derivatives and commodities markets, 13th century hygiene habits of the clergy. We can get very good at what we're paid to do or adapt at a hobby we wish we could be

Santa Cruz writing this important reminder to his father-in-law who as it happened was for

a time in charge of Rome's grainery, but then his position was revoked for political purposes, who really cares Santa Cruz saying, "Now you can focus that energy on your inner life."

“At the end of your time on this planet, what expertise is going to be more valuable?”

Your understanding of matters of living and dying, or your knowledge of the 87 bears. What will help your children more, your insights into happiness and meaning, or that you followed breaking political news every day for 30 years? I've said this before, but obviously being in informed citizen in a democracy is really important.

But people seem to think that being in informed citizen means watching a lot of MSNBC or

Fox News or spending a lot of time on Twitter, but what you see with these folks is they know a lot of trivia, but they fundamentally don't understand human nature, they fundamentally don't understand right or wrong or virtue, or the things that actually matter in life. Territory to said something like this is, you know, these people study all these books for all these years and they feel to realize that day and night are one.

What I take from that is he's saying is that they're missing the big picture, they're missing the eternal deep truths of life in exchange for the trivia, you know, that they run a great business, they understand these events in fiction or art or sports or whatever it is, but they fundamentally not come to grasp the truths of existence.

“And I think even what I love about stoicism is that stoicism isn't big arcane adstract”

questions, but practical ones, it's about understanding the balance sheet of one's life as Sanica was saying, it's about understanding their self, understanding their emotions, understanding people. I think what Sanica is saying is that we often understand everything but ourselves. We ask all the little questions instead of the couple bit questions, like why am I here?

What's important to me? That's right, what's wrong and that's such a shame philosophy is supposed to be practical, philosophy is supposed to push us to understand ourselves and humans, right? The amount of people that focus on this or that and then just fundamentally don't understand how psychology works or fundamentally understand how like the very system of government

works, they're just tied up and stuff, right? And they haven't thought about what the thing they're talking about would actually mean. So we talked about this before about how certainty and arrogance is the root of real ignorance.

“And I also think it goes for, what are you going to choose to know about?”

Trivial, ephemeral things are going to probe the deeper questions or you're going to probe yourself. You're going to look inward. Marcus really says throw away your books, now he says this in meditations and I don't think that meant, you know, then go watch the gladitorial games.

I think he meant throw away your books and sit there and think, sit there and get in touch with yourself, sit there and really examine, think about the things that you've already learned, that's what we're talking about. And it's just another sort of deeply powerful question from Seneca as the stoics tell us always, come and expert in the things that matter, focus on the things that matter, ask the

questions that really matter, lead the trivia and nonsense to everyone else. Hey, it's Ryan. Thank you for listening to the Daily Stoke podcast. I just wanted to say we so appreciate it, we love serving you.

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