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🗓️ 20 November 2022
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You’d think that the more powerful you are, the more freedom you’d have. The more money and success you have, the more you can do. You’d think that being a millionaire or being a celebrity or being the CEO would finally unshackle you from all the obnoxious and annoying constraints of being a ‘regular’ person…
How wrong this is. How wrong this has always been.
It was Eisenhower who said that freedom is really better described as the, “opportunity for self-discipline.” And you, you are lucky enough to live in a time of plenty that would have been unfathomable to history’s all-powerful kings. A time when nearly everything a person might want to do, they can, because there is no master standing over you. You are not an all-powerful sovereign, surely, but you have also never been more free.
So now what? What will you do with this opportunity? What will you do with your freedom? Who will you make yourself become?
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| 2:13.0 | Today we are talking about a core Stoic virtue of the four virtues, courage, discipline, justice, wisdom, discipline is the one that I think is the most practical and accessible and I think most immediately life change. |
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