20 Deep Philosophy Lessons from the Book "The Daily Stoic"
1. A degree on a wall means you’re educated as much as shoes on your feet mean you’re walking. It’s a start, but hardly sufficient.
2. There are two ways to be wealthy—to get everything you want or to want everything you have.
3. We want divine intervention so that our lives will magically be easier.
But what about asking for fortitude and strength so you can do what you need to do?
But what about asking for fortitude and strength so you can do what you need to do?
4. Listen and connect with people, don’t perform for them.
5. Our ambition should not be to win, then, but to play with our full effort.
6. What we desire makes us vulnerable.
7. We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that only the educated are free.
Knowledge—self-knowledge in particular—is freedom.
Knowledge—self-knowledge in particular—is freedom.
8. It may take some hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don’t matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do.
9. Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Willingly accept what’s outside your control.
10. If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier,
but we will also have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realize they are fighting an unwinnable battle.
but we will also have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realize they are fighting an unwinnable battle.
11. You must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.
12. Everything is change. Embrace that. Flow with it.
13. Getting upset is like continuing the dream while you’re awake.
The thing that provoked you wasn’t real—but your reaction was.
Wake up right now instead of creating a nightmare.
The thing that provoked you wasn’t real—but your reaction was.
Wake up right now instead of creating a nightmare.
14. If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid, don’t wish to seem knowledgeable.
15. You don’t control the situation, but you control what you think about it.
16. When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?” —EPICTETUS
17. The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, because an artful life requires being prepared to meet and withstand sudden and unexpected attacks.
18. No one said life was easy. No one said it would be fair.
19. Diogenes, the famous Cynic, once said, “It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.” To want nothing makes one invincible—because nothing lies outside your control.”
20. Quoting Fight Club - “We buy things we don’t need, to impress people we don’t like."
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