You Can’t Let People Puff You Up | Take A Walk
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 21 June 2021
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Summary
“As it is today, so it was in Rome. People have always tried to tell other people what they want to hear. Yeah, you’re doing great. Have you lost weight? I love your new haircut, boss. As a species, humans are quite good at obsequious flattering. That’s one of the things social media has harnessed: Our endless capacity for receiving and giving. We can fish for compliments and easily catch them as well. I am doing something special. Look at how many people liked my post!”
Ryan reminds you why you must stay humble to get better, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.2 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.1 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.6 | So let's get into it |
| 0:42.3 | You can't let people puff you up as it is today |
| 0:46.3 | So it was in Rome people have always tried to tell other people what they want to hear |
| 0:51.9 | Yeah, you're doing great. Have you lost weight? I love your new haircut boss as the species humans are quite good at |
| 1:00.1 | Obsequious flattering. That's one of the things social media has harnessed our endless capacity for receiving and giving |
| 1:06.9 | We can fish for compliments and easily catch them. I'm doing something special. Look at how many people like my post |
| 1:13.7 | Think of Santa and Marcus are really as as they move through the hierarchy of Roman life to higher and higher positions |
| 1:19.8 | They would have found as all leaders find that the more powerful you become the less truth you hear the more likely |
| 1:26.5 | You are to encounter sycophants and hangers on this is very dangerous because it fuels ego and stars moral progress as |
| 1:35.4 | Seneca warned lucilius the chief obstacle is that we are quick to be satisfied with ourselves if we find someone to call us good men |
| 1:43.5 | Cauchos and principled we acknowledge him we are not content with a moderate eulogy but accept as our do whatever flattery |
| 1:51.1 | Has been shamelessly heaped upon us we agree with those who call us best and wisest |
| 1:57.2 | Although we know they often utter many falsehoods we indulge ourselves so greatly that we want to be praised for virtue |
| 2:04.3 | Which is the opposite of our behavior a man? |
| 2:07.2 | Here's himself called most merciful when he is inflicting torture so it follows that we don't want to change because we believe we are already |
| 2:16.5 | Excellent ego is the enemy of getting better |
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