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http://ordinaryfaces.business.siteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-34270080939438348252024-03-17T03:00:00.000-07:002024-03-17T03:00:00.131-07:00#OutsiderVibes (Special Sunday Edition): Judgment At Nuremberg<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/IFcvs5YzRqo?si=9eC_XENCXJGEQ0Pc" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-66772187308588218412024-03-14T13:06:00.000-07:002024-03-14T13:06:00.130-07:00On Our "Virtual Route 66" This Week: #RandomThoughts <div class="separator"><figure style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-top: 12px; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaXGv1pirTY15PMeDV6cfzjgmMu9Na1OcrpSNpuuVysPdTTO_gZ7eFdIDNgggbvKWjKqoz09WShsg27pVwyKWdGe4Lw92EGByaaNm0R_3NoF8-VkstW5j6r20uvkS5L8cre=s0-d-e1-ft#https://embed.filekitcdn.com/e/f35v9iPXWXHDipj3cwX5WG/p91xWCTysRjUpcBaCUvDRL" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></figure></div><p> </p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"><b>We present the following "#RandomThoughts for consideration with thoughts courtesy Ryan Holiday, Ryan Holiday, and Brian Dodd: </b></span></i></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A few weeks ago, I was running early in the morning in Arizona. I probably should have waited for it to get light out, but I had a busy day ahead of me and wanted to squeeze it in.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I even remember thinking as I left, as I turned on my woefully insufficient flashlight on my phone, <em>I hope this isn’t a mistake.</em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The answer came not three steps later, when I went down and my ankle rolled hard to the left.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">After washing off my scrapes and testing the ankle, I decided to push through the run and got a good five miles in. <em>Tough,</em> right? Just hours later, I could barely keep my shoe on, and putting even the slightest weight on it was painful. By that night, a long bruise covered the length of my foot.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I took about ten days off from running–dutifully elevating and icing it when I could—and even those ten days felt like an eternity to me. Going nearly out of my mind and having tested it with a few brisk walks, I biked and then started running again. My wife told me I was crazy but I was starting a new book and I <em>needed</em> the activity to balance me out. I couldn’t afford <em>not</em> to, I said.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">All was well until a Friday morning about two weeks later. I was giving a talk in Kentucky later that evening and wanted to run before we headed to the airport. I didn’t even make it down the stairs of my back porch. My ankle, still weaker than I thought, rolled hard to the left as I came down the last stair.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It was nothing like the last time. The pain was excruciating. I heard an audible pop, and from the signals my leg was sending to my brain, I honestly expected to look down and see bone sticking out of my skin. Sounds came out of my mouth that I had no control over and when I laid down—unable to put any weight on my leg—my body started to shake.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I was hurt, but mostly, I was mad at myself. I knew in that instance I was about to get an abject lesson in what the writer John Steinbeck called “indiscipline of overwork.” Pushing yourself past your limits, using brute force, he said, was “the falsest of economies.” I had pushed myself too far generally and then ignored my recovery. Now I was going to pay.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">At the orthopedist shortly thereafter, I got good news—not broken—and bad news—a severe sprain with some ligament tearing. No surgery required, but it would need some serious physical therapy. A month, ideally, six weeks of recovery, he told me.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><em>And no running for six weeks.</em> That’s what returning early would cost me.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">This is a lesson I have learned and not learned before.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In fact, I open <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/92udrr7z93inhqrk2glf5i0x48633/48hvhehrg0g8n0ux/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuMj92YXJpYW50PTQwMzA4NTc3NTk5NjQy&source=gmail&ust=1710188189459000&usg=AOvVaw13ejizGyJH-bO1d7FW_teU" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/92udrr7z93inhqrk2glf5i0x48633/48hvhehrg0g8n0ux/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuMj92YXJpYW50PTQwMzA4NTc3NTk5NjQy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Ego is the Enemy</em></a> with a recounting of my own workaholism. I use that Steinbeck quote in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/92udrr7z93inhqrk2glf5i0x48633/wnh2hghwgrg63wf7/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9kaXNjaXBsaW5lLWlzLWRlc3RpbnktdGhlLXBvd2VyLW9mLXNlbGYtY29udHJvbC1wcmUtb3JkZXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710188189459000&usg=AOvVaw1hNvLteyo0BnwUgaAssvrf" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/92udrr7z93inhqrk2glf5i0x48633/wnh2hghwgrg63wf7/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9kaXNjaXBsaW5lLWlzLWRlc3RpbnktdGhlLXBvd2VyLW9mLXNlbGYtY29udHJvbC1wcmUtb3JkZXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Discipline is Destiny</em></a>, where I talk about the importance of what they called <em>load management</em> in the NBA. I have a whole chapter about it in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/92udrr7z93inhqrk2glf5i0x48633/reh8hoh0xqxzemh2/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuMw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1710188189459000&usg=AOvVaw22gVKuj1sRvRXWYGzXf2Rk" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/92udrr7z93inhqrk2glf5i0x48633/reh8hoh0xqxzemh2/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9yeWFuMw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Stillness is the Key</em></a>. I tell the story of Prince Albert, a hard worker from the day he married into the British royal family. Indeed, many of the so-called Victorian traits of the era originated with him. He was disciplined, fastidious, ambitious, conservative. Their schedule was packed with meetings and social events, as Albert tirelessly worked, even to the point of occasional stress-induced vomiting. He would write to his stepmother, “I am more dead than alive from overwork.” Still, he soldiered on for years, working harder and harder, forcing his body to comply. And then suddenly, in 1861, it quit on him. His strength failed. He drifted into incoherency. At 10:50 p.m. on December 14, Albert took his three final breaths and died.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The cause? Crohn’s disease, exacerbated by extreme stress. He had literally worked his guts out.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">To give you another personal example, I wear an Apple Watch and I have this goal: I try to burn a thousand active calories every single day. A few years ago, I got into a rhythm for many consecutive days, and if you have an Apple Watch, you know you start getting these alerts and badges to nudge you into keeping it going.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Even though this is all utterly meaningless—it’s not even public—it got harder for me to stop each day. Doing the exercise was nothing to me, but not hitting the benchmark? That was what I was dreading. I finally did stop after way too many days without recovery, I think because I had a long international flight. You know what the reward for my ‘accomplishment’ was?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I came down with mono!</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I was talking to my friend Brad Feld (who is a great startup investor and has suffered from burnout and overwork himself) shortly after. I was joking to him, "Can you believe I got mono? Isn't this what girls get from making out with the football team in high school?" And he said, "No, it's actually very serious." He said, "Mono = Ryan_wore_himself_out."</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I'd worn myself out so much that I got mono, which took me two months to recover from. Talk about the falsest of economies–skipping a day or two of rest here and there cost me <em>months</em>. I wore my immune system down. I worked too hard for too long, and it ended up being a problem for me. I couldn't write. I couldn't think. My mind was all messed up, and it was really hard.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In Japan they have a word, <em>karōshi</em>, which translates to death from overwork. In Korean it’s <em>gwarosa</em>. Is that what you want to be? A workhorse that draws its load until it collapses and dies, still shod and in the harness? Is that what you were put on this planet for?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Do you want to be the artist who loses their joy for the process, who has strip-mined their soul in such a way that there is nothing left to draw upon? Burn out or fade away—that was the question in Kurt Cobain’s suicide note. How is that even a dilemma?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It’s human <em>being</em>, not human doing, for a reason.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Moderation. Being present. Knowing your limits. This is the key. This takes just as much discipline as pushing yourself hard.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The body that each of us has is a gift. Don’t work it to death. Don’t burn it out.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Protect the gift.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Take care of yourself out there!</span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-4479233604603223928templateContainer" style="background-color: #e2e2e2; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-size: small; max-width: 600px !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td id="m_-4479233604603223928templateHeader" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_-4479233604603223928mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/meips/ADKq_NaVwl8Ci8wyE9JHpRXEAL_LmxZl70mifed36DUF49XFX3knHjL9Dwb6U8R0MaOmD9aVDwyVWVs1tC4wtry3JJzxEE014u9tRU5rXwxgfMJLu5JRWrRRhA1fDwoMcxqzOmlEEFcjK9U8-GWdtzh0lZcJ1ZeatgVGSNE=s0-d-e1-ft#https://mcusercontent.com/8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537/images/ac80fc70-9dd1-43ea-a5b8-49c89613fb25.png" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 400px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="400" /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td id="m_-4479233604603223928templateBody" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-4479233604603223928mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-4479233604603223928mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><h1 style="color: #0845c9; font-family: Arvo, Courier, Georgia, serif; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of March 4th</span></h1><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D1d0cab1269%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1710187529404000&usg=AOvVaw0c4PLQWG6YRTwhijjv7zoj" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=1d0cab1269&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of March 4th</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">Mar 08, 2024 03:09 pm | Brian Dodd</span></div><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of March 4th The following are The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of March 4th: 5 Outdated Phrases That Really Hurt Your Leadership by Scott Cochrane Do You Promote Your Career With Original Ideas Or By Criticizing Others? by Phil Cooke 10 Of […]</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D24be561f34%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1710187529404000&usg=AOvVaw2ncagRtJuvy2zidmHZQPCo" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=24be561f34&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">comments</a> | <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D9ca68bdca4%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1710187529404000&usg=AOvVaw3wD4CqqQTGPUufRObBWPIh" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=9ca68bdca4&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">read more</a> </span></div></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-7428497320749419037templateContainer" style="background-color: #e2e2e2; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; max-width: 600px !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td id="m_-7428497320749419037templateHeader" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td id="m_-7428497320749419037templateBody" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-7428497320749419037mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-7428497320749419037mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><h1 style="color: #0845c9; font-family: Arvo, Courier, Georgia, serif; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">4 Difficult Leadership Lessons From Miami Beach’s Spring Break Issues</span></h1><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D517ed82418%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1710188187053000&usg=AOvVaw1If1sYdEwKSLaWJpGIsNuF" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=517ed82418&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">4 Difficult Leadership Lessons From Miami Beach’s Spring Break Issues</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">Mar 06, 2024 03:20 pm | Brian Dodd</span></div><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Spring Break Issues Miami Beach’s spring break activities have become unmanageable and completely disruptive to the local population. However, according to this article, the solution to the chaos has competing viewpoints and is definitely up for discussion. There is one thing which everyone can agree upon – things need to change so that the community, […]</span></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-13787624725556531862024-03-08T00:00:00.000-08:002024-03-08T00:00:00.160-08:00On Our "Virtural Route 66" This Week: #RandomThoughts For the Week <p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">Please enjoy the following #RandomThoughts For the Week courtesy of the Daily Stoic and Johnathan Lockwood Huie:</span></p><p><!-- x-tinymce/html --></p><table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 600px;">
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</span><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><br />May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue.<br />And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.<br />- Irish Blessing<br /><br />Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world.<br />Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak.<br />Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor,<br />and your picture begins to lighten up.<br />- Allen Klein<br /><br />The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves.<br />- Bob Proctor<br /><br />The best portion of a good man's life<br />is his little, nameless, unremembered<br />acts of kindness and of love.<br />- William Wordsworth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="color: #222222; padding: 0px !important;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float: none; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="display: inline-block; margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 800px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEis_KV6h9v2NZ5YV3WWSCInfYWW35Oy9V9_f6vdaGITY3J45GLmRXHCqT6VsPW7io7jjEIuIKV8Sf_0hyOu9B5ISKsvgbf_Ug4KJgH-oTDze1_hGpqALvdsg_UCOxYFQwSDTJsShrq2Sl9XOozIJqkxiFz2-x5yjHeg0CG-cEIOpK4-PniEivU=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></span></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 0px auto; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Marcus Aurelius called it a few different things. His translators varied even more in their interpretations. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/l2hehmh3r0d7glf6/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1709585016121000&usg=AOvVaw3-tRhAWds9c50kbkmSIPeJ" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/l2hehmh3r0d7glf6/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Gregory Hays</a> used the word “imperialization.” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/m2h7h5h8eglzrmsm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucy10aGUtYW5ub3RhdGVkLWVkaXRpb24_X3Bvcz0zJl9zaWQ9MWNiN2ZlMzY3Jl9zcz1y&source=gmail&ust=1709585016121000&usg=AOvVaw2W_vZ6Fkv03mWtZr5cHOWW" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/m2h7h5h8eglzrmsm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucy10aGUtYW5ub3RhdGVkLWVkaXRpb24_X3Bvcz0zJl9zaWQ9MWNiN2ZlMzY3Jl9zcz1y" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Robin Waterfield</a> called it “becoming Caesarified” and “dyed in purple.” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/dpheh0h0542n35bm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9pbm5lci1jaXRhZGVsLXRoZS1tZWRpdGF0aW9ucy1vZi1tYXJjdXMtYXVyZWxpdXMtcmV2aXNlZD9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD0xOGZhY2QzNjUmX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1709585016121000&usg=AOvVaw12AcEyilqTjHxehfiI0MG-" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/dpheh0h0542n35bm/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9pbm5lci1jaXRhZGVsLXRoZS1tZWRpdGF0aW9ucy1vZi1tYXJjdXMtYXVyZWxpdXMtcmV2aXNlZD9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD0xOGZhY2QzNjUmX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Pierre Hadot</a> has it, “becoming Caesarized.” George Long translates it, “Take care that thou art not made into a Caesar, that thou art not dyed with this dye.” In <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/7qh7h8hozkx5gduz/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtZGFpbHktc3RvaWMtc2lnbmVkLWVkaXRpb24%3D&source=gmail&ust=1709585016121000&usg=AOvVaw15j2debWWXxxFZBDM9u17O" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/7qh7h8hozkx5gduz/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtZGFpbHktc3RvaWMtc2lnbmVkLWVkaXRpb24=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>The Daily Stoic</em></a>, we have Marcus express his worry of being “stained purple.”</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Ok, but what is he actually talking about? He’s talking about <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/z2hghnh3w4mxg6hp/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zdG9pYy1yZXNwb25zZS1wb3dlci8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1709585016121000&usg=AOvVaw26RzWWh0KrYegKppydlgb5" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/z2hghnh3w4mxg6hp/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zdG9pYy1yZXNwb25zZS1wb3dlci8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">being corrupted by power</a>, changed by the position and fame that he has. And we know this was a lifelong concern of his. One story has Marcus Aurelius breaking down in tears when he’s told he will someday be emperor, not because he was sad, but because his study of history taught him how few people managed to leave the job unscathed, let alone unchanged.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">While none of us will <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/x0hph6hw3r40g6s5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9lc2NhcGUtdGhpcy1pbmRlbGlibGUtc3RhaW4v&source=gmail&ust=1709585016121000&usg=AOvVaw3acrmwU9ETVFQTV_2TlK76" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/x0hph6hw3r40g6s5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9lc2NhcGUtdGhpcy1pbmRlbGlibGUtc3RhaW4v" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">wear the purple cloak</a> of the emperor (that’s what Marcus was referring to about being dyed), hopefully, we will be successful. Hopefully, we will earn positions of influence and power and respect. What will this reveal about us? What might it corrupt or corrode?</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">It is a timeless battle, a timeless temptation. Stoicism is here to help us with it. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/l2hehmh3r0d7glf6/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1709585016121000&usg=AOvVaw3-tRhAWds9c50kbkmSIPeJ" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh46qqmefxi2k2g500/l2hehmh3r0d7glf6/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a>, specifically, is one of the only books ever written by a person with that much power, one of the only books by a person who power did not make worse, and about how to remain good and decent and virtuous when there is every excuse and opportunity not to.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">We ignore it at our peril.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>
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After everything that’s happened in your life, after everything that’s gone wrong the last couple weeks, you think to yourself, “I can’t handle one more thing going wrong.”</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Certainly, Marcus Aurelius would have related to the sentiment. Floods. Plagues. Wars. A troubled son. Personal health issues. “Haven’t I given enough?” <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/8ku9p8oxpdboh0dnekes5izpzg399/vqh3hrhpewmxr7bg/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj0xd3RZOU4tX1g5QSZ0PTQycw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708988427842000&usg=AOvVaw0haGn6ReP9AKq-QxtavJ5y" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/8ku9p8oxpdboh0dnekes5izpzg399/vqh3hrhpewmxr7bg/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj0xd3RZOU4tX1g5QSZ0PTQycw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">we had him say in a recent Daily Stoic video</a>. But the thing is, life doesn’t care. It has no time for your questions. It pays no mind to your limits.</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“I don’t think I’m up for this,” the novelist John Gregory Dunne said to his wife as they left the hospital after rushing to check on their daughter who had just been admitted. He was down about his career. He wasn’t feeling great about his own health. He was sick about his only child. He was worried it would be a long and hard road out for all of them. Joan Didion, his steely, stoic wife, responded with something we can imagine Marcus Aurelius reminding himself of in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/8ku9p8oxpdboh0dnekes5izpzg399/l2hehmh36xq07ms6/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708988427842000&usg=AOvVaw3XBFsimByOOuQLL7TxBRxe" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/8ku9p8oxpdboh0dnekes5izpzg399/l2hehmh36xq07ms6/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a>: “You don’t get a choice.”</span></p><p style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Fortune behaves as she pleases, the Stoics said. Life disposes. It decides. 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If we had a choice, we may choose for them not to happen. But still, we have no idea how they are preparing us, shaping us, even saving us. All we can do is try to find meaning, find lessons, find the opportunities in these moments, however tragic and painful they may be in the moment.</span></p><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Read: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/x0hph6hw9430nnf5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93ZS1jYW4tZmluZC10aGUtZ2lmdC1pbi1pdC8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708988427075000&usg=AOvVaw3gzoD6HpglbFpU-gq3I6jX" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/x0hph6hw9430nnf5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93ZS1jYW4tZmluZC10aGUtZ2lmdC1pbi1pdC8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">We Can Find The Gift In It</a></span></p><hr style="margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 24px;" /><h2 style="line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:</span></h2><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/58hvh7hmk4725ku6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1QUkR4SzhwNzdxdw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708988427075000&usg=AOvVaw11Nlszsw0AlK-Jt5nKI_g_" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/58hvh7hmk4725ku6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1QUkR4SzhwNzdxdw==" style="border: 0px; color: #0875c1; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 480px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 480px;" target="_blank"><img alt="video preview" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhylObXWlPhIV6aCSzzXt_feNK7JPBPy2KHtkJkgwFpYWkAciF8A4K4Py7NzTsAJV6eGlgNjf5IkPmVYpKYDv-dHcYTBbCxmJ6S9PxbZAnTZ7L48jsvi7H8FYDbS_wKeC2nOca_J5y8i7Y4kSuFP33xk1Ph0IrbPWvoDOE3t0VWUSRQ2njIw2W5Je8i3HIdKiLNoHcexSzdm12czG58Y-QrebeiISniTzKQOMPBiq3HrCqQe5VtN_9oyRALTgD1rC0mkr3-M4sCf4BpMf3Co4fDKzwOBTxXn51hwyHjQ4L2KYpFc0_cOu1fKvqqgk6Rv1E=s0-d-e1-ft&accent=%23ffffff&thumbnailof=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPRDxK8p77qw&width=480&height=270&fit=contain" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 0px none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; outline: none;" width="480" /><span style="font-family: Combo;"></span></a><p style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">In a recent video on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/g3hnh5h360pwegur/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vYy9EYWlseVN0b2ljL3ZpZGVvcw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708988427075000&usg=AOvVaw1Hc5ViMplNuWSZRYSqqxTM" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/g3hnh5h360pwegur/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vYy9EYWlseVN0b2ljL3ZpZGVvcw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel</a>, Ryan Holiday speaks 12 Stoic remedies for feeling lonely or depressed, including changing your perspective, asking for help, and being a better friend to yourself:</span></p><div style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“When we’re down in those depths, when we’re in dark places, when we’re isolated and feel disconnected from people, we have to remember that we’re not bad people. How we talk to ourselves matters, and the decision to treat yourself poorly is not a good decision…If you don’t think you’re worthy of friendships or relationships or connection or love, then how is anyone else going to see that in you? It started by realizing you’re not a bad person, and, as Seneca says, being a better friend to yourself.”</span></div><table style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/58hvh7hmk4725ku6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1QUkR4SzhwNzdxdw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1708988427075000&usg=AOvVaw11Nlszsw0AlK-Jt5nKI_g_" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/58hvh7hmk4725ku6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1QUkR4SzhwNzdxdw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #dfc141; border-radius: 4px; border: 0px solid rgb(223, 193, 65); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 12px 20px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Watch 12 (Stoic) Remedies for Feeling Lonely or Depressed</strong><strong></strong></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="font-size: 16px; 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Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">— <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/l2hehmh36dr7ogi6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9jb2xsZWN0aW9ucy9iZXN0LW9mLTIwMjMvcHJvZHVjdHMvcGhpbG9zb3BoeTE5&source=gmail&ust=1708988427076000&usg=AOvVaw2WCmNDmBPePqixKqLFVs4N" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5l8e75t2t3d3ml77/l2hehmh36dr7ogi6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9jb2xsZWN0aW9ucy9iZXN0LW9mLTIwMjMvcHJvZHVjdHMvcGhpbG9zb3BoeTE5" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>On the Shortness of Life</em></a><em> </em>by Seneca</span></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_9143813026845696227templateContainer" style="background-color: #e2e2e2; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; max-width: 600px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td id="m_9143813026845696227templateHeader" style="background: none 50% 50% / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b><i><img align="center" alt="" class="m_9143813026845696227mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiufCnKd3lJ5Um0LwjXaK75we5qJK9_mGHQRta_OP_RD0nLRkCEP2PezLqXy9XaxWzy5RxruFIZ7JYKkRsZ685xKIX4BB8xES0_07AKk4y8_T17fqiEh2xUgChUxgZK9C1dXkWTilJN87awxL6U0LmyrEg0Gtmy3mGlSxtZbZCUYUySKv6EviIprtTsOWtkNcBYF8iHsvQ20uHvoxm1_w=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline; height: auto; max-width: 400px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" width="400" /></i></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td id="m_9143813026845696227templateBody" style="background: none 50% 50% / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_9143813026845696227mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_9143813026845696227mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><h1 style="color: #0845c9; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><i>10 Necessary Skills Of Today’s Innovative Leaders</i></span></h1><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D0fc8d54a40%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708986222262000&usg=AOvVaw0mZNU3UjquewUKTdO1jdZg" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=0fc8d54a40&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><b><i>10 Necessary Skills Of Today’s Innovative Leaders</i></b></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><b><i>Feb 24, 2024 04:46 pm | Brian Dodd</i></b></span></div><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><b><i>The older I get the more I understand and appreciate the importance of stability. But I also know with the how fast the world is changing and the constant need for innovation. If you are unable to continually innovate, you will soon become obsolete. When studying innovative organizations many people default to science or technology. […]</i></b></span></p><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><b><i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D254ec91931%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708986222262000&usg=AOvVaw2yfKP8b9kd2dTpRcl54kae" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=254ec91931&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">comments</a> | <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D0e774de204%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708986222262000&usg=AOvVaw3tzbxff4-WdOfWKdKUD_a0" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=0e774de204&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">read more</a></i></b></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3576952765509963546templateContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-size: small; max-width: 600px; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_3576952765509963546mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3576952765509963546mcnTextContent" style="color: #656565; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><h2 style="color: #202020; font-size: 22px; line-height: 27.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D5e1ccc6d04%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708986229552000&usg=AOvVaw3EJ1n3F-zEOFyP_4W-JNmH" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=5e1ccc6d04&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><i>The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of February 19th</i></span></a></h2><p style="line-height: 18px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><b><i>This week's Top 10 list is a collection of must-read articles for anyone interested in spiritual leadership. Some of the great writers featured are Greg Laurie, Craig Groeschel, Dan Reiland, Phil Cooke, Rich Birch, Ron Edmondson, and many more!<br /><br />This articles will equip you to lead better in the faith and non-profit space. Click <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D8fcc26459d%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708986229552000&usg=AOvVaw2csp88rBP4-QIOcj3SCgPW" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=8fcc26459d&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank">HERE</a> for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3Da48b904002%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708986229552000&usg=AOvVaw3RHwJBugMTZE5klMY52wi6" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=a48b904002&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank">The Top 10 Leadership Posts I Read The Week Of February 19th</a>.</i></b></span></p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><b><i>Also, if you missed any of this site's posts this week, make sure you read the following:</i></b></span><ul><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D3637dac823%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708986229552000&usg=AOvVaw1znh0TkVYZ8T5_qNA2aeFF" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=3637dac823&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><b><i>Dolly Parton’s Definition of Leadership and 7 Things We Can All Learn From It</i></b></span></a></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D4deb6a4a58%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708986229552000&usg=AOvVaw1GYHI0FV2iZNs0P9ZS--bU" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=4deb6a4a58&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #656565;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><b><i>7 Leadership Lessons We Learn from Caitlin Clark and Her Mastery of the Logo 3</i></b></span></a></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-family: Combo; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We begin this "Notation" with a wish for our community as our team had the privilege of curating our weekly "Virtual Route 66" this week. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We present the following #RandomThoughts For the Week courtesy of Johnathon Lockwood Huie and his team, Brian Dodd along with Wooden's Wisdom: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_8600207311027881453responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_8600207311027881453responsive-cell" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;" valign="top"><img class="m_8600207311027881453mobile-image-stretch-enabled CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjQFO_Fqb_93ixIp7xOY3MC4CU38MPo5USFkOHYfXTr73yjQ4gAbbVHSnWgv0c48XUGfWcub6m8NyDpQSpob7Cc5YlMrR6gTM0mO45M-wMyFNvHZTGGBarFLYdz2dlkMYb7g5yiBNLyKEC9i7hnHXXT29jOQ4tgv8vJuBqxGr7rhthJiTMH_nhLhkO8W_YABbb9LQEerOx_kPb93GSuwcjSke4=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_8600207311027881453responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="background-color: #0000ee; color: #262626; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: white;"> </span></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="m_8600207311027881453responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">Forgiveness does not change the past,<br />but it does enlarge the future.<br />- Paul Boese<br /><br />Forgiveness is the key to happiness.<br />- A Course In Miracles<br /><br />I rest in the light of forgiveness.<br />I forgive myself and others for that<br />which is done (and better left undone)<br />and also that which is not done (and better if done).<br />I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt.<br />I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.<br />- Mary Anne Radmacher<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">Forgiveness Creates Space for a New Tomorrow.<br />Forgiving Others Grants You Peace.<br />- Jonathan Lockwood Huie<br /><br />Further reading: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jlhuie.com/2016/03/forgive-all-from-your-heart.html&source=gmail&ust=1708309770239000&usg=AOvVaw0Hfk268s5FupOAOvDtGZSd" href="http://www.jlhuie.com/2016/03/forgive-all-from-your-heart.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Forgive All From Your Heart</a><br /><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jlhuie.com/2015/08/forgiving-sets-you-free.html&source=gmail&ust=1708309770239000&usg=AOvVaw1Yvlb7AQaIqiKM7cCkjxwq" href="http://www.jlhuie.com/2015/08/forgiving-sets-you-free.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Forgiving Sets You Free<br /><br /></a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jlhuie.com/2016/06/burning-away-old-regrets-and-resentments.html&source=gmail&ust=1708309770239000&usg=AOvVaw0LlHJxSVhhp4TKnm0haWjS" href="http://www.jlhuie.com/2016/06/burning-away-old-regrets-and-resentments.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Burning Away Old Regrets and Resentments</a><br /><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jlhuie.com/2015/10/helping-is-what-life-is-about.html&source=gmail&ust=1708309770239000&usg=AOvVaw0rwZpOdA5LJgEou9oYpj4l" href="http://www.jlhuie.com/2015/10/helping-is-what-life-is-about.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Helping is what Life is About</a></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 51); border-style: solid; border-width: 2.25pt; color: #222222; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img alt="Woodens Wisdom" border="0" class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi4vlaZCGrbAZBFjFlVDKOyImVdFVMqlV8yx4eAIfpxRuuGs9RbEEYPRbbgiU56K2FhP_HjC9TMTgqU3LKmDKZQEeAh76KboNToHQVoY6yru-coEjPZRR1mxYl19oJOct94EtEHQGwkY6rjK7pLcoWjbwvFdp4OIOMESRoPOQ=s0-d-e1-ft" style="cursor: pointer; outline: 0px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></span></td></tr><tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#2D3A4A" height="30px" style="margin: 0px; padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Combo;"><b> </b></span></td><td align="right" bgcolor="#2D3A4A" height="30px" style="margin: 0px; padding-right: 30px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: Combo;"><b> </b></span></td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="2" style="background: black; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-style: solid none; border-top-color: rgb(227, 192, 53); border-width: 2.25pt medium; color: white; margin: 0px; padding: 2.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><b> </b></span></td></tr><tr><td style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 11.25pt; width: 800pt;" valign="top" width="1200"><p><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p><strong><span style="line-height: 21.4667px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">THE PLAYER WHO GIVES HIS BEST IS SURE OF SUCCESS, WHILE THE PLAYER WHO GIVES LESS THAN HIS BEST IS A FAILURE</span></span></strong></p><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">As discussed last week in Issue #253, Coach Wooden did not lecture his players extensively on his Pyramid of Success. Rather than give his players a general lecture on the Pyramid, Coach gave them a specific list of twenty behaviors he called <i>Normal Expectations.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">By taking this approach, Coach established clear expectations using the <i>Pyramid of Success</i> as a guide rather than just a general lecture on good behavior.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">The <i>Normal Expectations</i> document Coach handed out to his players listed ten <i>desired</i> behaviors and ten <i>never</i> behaviors. The ten <i>never</i> behaviors are listed below in <i>italics</i>. I added the Pyramid of Success quality or qualities the behavior reflects in block lettering.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never criticize, nag, or razz a teammate.</i> (Cooperation and Team Spirit)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never miss or be late for any class or appointment.</i> (Reliability)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never be selfish, jealous, envious, or egotistical.</i> (Team Spirit)></span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never expect favors.</i> (Industriousness)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never waste time.</i> (Industriousness)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never alibi or make excuses.</i> (Self-Control)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never require repeated criticism for the same mistake.</i> (Alertness and Self-Control)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never lose faith or patience.</i> (Faith and Patience)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never grandstand, loaf, sulk, or boast.</i> (Team Spirit)</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><i>Never have reason to be sorry afterwards.</i> (Industriousness and Self-Control)</span></li></ol><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">Coach concluded this handout with a very direct summary statement. Not coincidentally, he individually underlined each word for emphasis and clarity of importance.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><div><u><i><span style="font-family: Combo;">The Player who gives his best is sure of success, while the player who gives less than his best is a failure.</span></i></u></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">Coach Wooden not only asked his players to abide by these ten suggestions, he made his best effort to do it himself and asked his assistant coaches to do the same. Any team, group or family that could follow these suggestions for proper conduct would improve their chance of maximizing their potential.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">Upon close examination, it is a very challenging but worthwhile list.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">How does your daily personal behavior match up with these ten suggestions from Coach Wooden?</span></div><i><span style="font-family: Combo;"><div> </div><div><br />Yours in Coaching,</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Craig Impelman</div><div> </div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.woodenswisdom.com&source=gmail&ust=1708309773151000&usg=AOvVaw0tAFmg-1_BxsHLJ3QeUdXO" href="http://www.woodenswisdom.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.woodenswisdom.com</a></div><div> </div><div>Twitter: @woodenswisdom</div><br /><br /><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></span></i></td><td style="background: rgb(31, 74, 100); border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; width: 400pt;" valign="top" width="600"><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/1-mSQxH2mvc&source=gmail&ust=1708309773151000&usg=AOvVaw0DlB_IK9u2SiQ5ijz7QwGg" href="https://youtu.be/1-mSQxH2mvc" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Watch Video" border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="216" id="m_7908393999412141655_x0000_i1028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjU0MMdoSDEyUmGhGRv5Tpry6HCVzQPSVEnKNf_OxXX-qJdOJGC_ckfciSQXQjATTxIERuSpK7l1mmKIL20tybDMfybVi0EO-SMOtKKtyAi_TSHBAPOdtyZUtl2FQIRSwxsOD-7U1a8wxZZtl7KKmM62CU7r7YYGA7BK7Rp1z4p0A=s0-d-e1-ft" width="200" /></span></a><br /></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.75pt; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><span style="color: white;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.woodenswisdom.com/pdf/exercise/ww-vol254-ae.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1708309773151000&usg=AOvVaw3YEVCx3_nHFmSV1plzjS74" href="http://www.woodenswisdom.com/pdf/exercise/ww-vol254-ae.pdf" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Application Exercise" border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="216" id="m_7908393999412141655_x0000_i1028" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiKhPLdpqTQ47JFnekSaKiY6Goa7kXroo9QfcqiH7-anAGNSwJondEd_Ay1vsNkiUf5O_iWk8BGrF28ZCOxSOnJAHS5UAaN2Cum_LKIyFtZfgH8NEnubVXeGrvOgZbLVf-7wSyUuxDKc8d9H3yOFBrV6SPtsPzd3NC3bRTsCsz-=s0-d-e1-ft" width="200" /></span></a><br /><br /></span><span style="color: #f8dc72;">COACH'S<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"><br />FAVORITE POETRY<br />AND PROSE</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; line-height: 21.4667px;"><b><span style="font-family: Combo;">Go Forth to Life</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> <span style="color: white;">Go forth to life, O child of earth!<br />Still mindful of thy heavenly birth;<br />Thou art not here for ease, or sin,<br />But manhood's noble crown to win.<br /><br />Though' passion's fires are in thy soul,<br />Thy spirit can their flames control;<br />Though' tempters strong beset thy way,<br />Thy spirit is more strong than they.<br /><br />Go on from innocence of youth<br />To manly purity and truth;<br />God's angels still are near to save,<br />And God Himself doth help the brave.<br /><br />Then forth to life, O child of earth!<br />Be worthy of thy heavenly birth!<br />For noble service thou art here;<br />Thy brothers help, thy God revere!<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><strong><span style="color: white;">Samuel Longfellow</span></strong> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7303188192539771262templateContainer" style="background-color: #e2e2e2; 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letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: small;">10 Things Which Make Patrick Mahomes a Once In A Generation Leader and Athlete</span></h1><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"></p><div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D32b4e26c45%26e%3D7091a00d14&source=gmail&ust=1708309773184000&usg=AOvVaw0cepK2PTcL5kxVO3ywuy5z" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=32b4e26c45&e=7091a00d14" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;">10 Things Which Make Patrick Mahomes a Once In A Generation Leader and Athlete</span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;"> </span></div><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A Legendary Leader When I posted my Super Bowl preview on Saturday, I wrote the following words about Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes: “Mahomes gives validity to the Great Man Theory. This theory is a hypothesis which was popularized in the 19th century and suggests certain unique individuals possess natural skills and abilities which […]</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7857120611703740714templateContainer" style="background-color: #fafafa; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-size: small; max-width: 600px !important; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td id="m_7857120611703740714templateHeader" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D729f814a21%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708316946314000&usg=AOvVaw2p8nLTLzQOwZ7ATd4V6CUR" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=729f814a21&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img align="center" alt="" class="m_7857120611703740714mcnImage CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiufCnKd3lJ5Um0LwjXaK75we5qJK9_mGHQRta_OP_RD0nLRkCEP2PezLqXy9XaxWzy5RxruFIZ7JYKkRsZ685xKIX4BB8xES0_07AKk4y8_T17fqiEh2xUgChUxgZK9C1dXkWTilJN87awxL6U0LmyrEg0Gtmy3mGlSxtZbZCUYUySKv6EviIprtTsOWtkNcBYF8iHsvQ20uHvoxm1_w=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border: 0px; display: inline !important; height: auto; max-width: 196px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: bottom;" width="196" /></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td id="m_7857120611703740714templateBody" style="background: none center center / cover no-repeat rgb(255, 255, 255); border-bottom: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_7857120611703740714mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_7857120611703740714mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"> Steven Bartlett's new book <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3D6126bf9d45%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708316946314000&usg=AOvVaw2iZfKZ6xjktNwDlg2dAwsQ" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=6126bf9d45&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The Diary Of A CEO: The 33 Laws Of Business And Life</em></a>. is outstanding and one of the best leadership books I have read in some time.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Bartlett is an entrepreneur, speaker, investor, and host of the incredibly popular <em>The Diary Of A CEO</em> podcast. He has been named one of <em>Forbe's</em> 30 Under 30. From countless conversations with some of the world's most successful leaders, scientific research, and his own leadership experience, Bartlett has chronicled his life's lessons in this new book.</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">I can't recommend enough you purchase <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3Db1ecbf9257%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708316946314000&usg=AOvVaw20ufpHCAvwv56lZjkvOsRQ" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=b1ecbf9257&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The Diary Of A CEO: The 33 Laws Of Business And Life</em></a>. Click <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537%26id%3Dbd7d9da23f%26e%3D749c8bc9fc&source=gmail&ust=1708316946314000&usg=AOvVaw0hdwn48TxvONZum7MWx38y" href="https://briandoddonleadership.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8cf82b4fe8b977ced00f17537&id=bd7d9da23f&e=749c8bc9fc" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">HERE</a> or on the image provided below to learn more and purchase. #CommissionsEarned</span></p><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The following are Bartlett's 33 Laws. If some of these seem counter-intuitive, I understand but purchase the book which unpacks each of these in greater detail.</span></p><ol><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Fill your five buckets in the right order</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">To master it, you must create an obligation to teach it</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">You must never disagree</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">You do not get to choose what you believe</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">You must lean in to bizarre behavior</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Ask, don't tell - the question/behavior effect</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Never compromise your self-story</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Never fight a bad habit</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Always prioritize your first foundation</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Useless absurdity will define you more than useful practicalities</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Avoid wallpaper at all costs</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">You must piss people off</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Shoot your psychological moonshots first</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Friction can create value</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The frame matters more than the picture</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Use Goldilocks to your advantage</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Let them try and they will buy</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Fight for the first five seconds</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">You must sweat the small stuff</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">A small miss now creates a big miss later</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">You must out-fail the competition</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">You must become a Plan-A thinker</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Don't be an ostrich</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">You must make pressure your privilege</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The power of negative manifestation</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Your skills are worthless, but your context is valuable</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The discipline equation: death, time and discipline!</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Ask who not how</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Create a cult mentality</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The three bars for building great teams</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Leverage the power of progress</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">You must be an inconsistent leader</span></li><li style="margin-left: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Learning never ends</span></li></ol><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Trust me, all of these make sense when you read the book and will add great value to your leadership.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-64908390566290916992024-02-17T18:07:00.000-08:002024-02-17T18:07:51.247-08:00#OutsiderVibes (Special W_End Edition): JAWAN: Chaleya (Hindi) | Shah Rukh Khan | <iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/VAdGW7QDJiU?si=yiifg8gxdU8lZzkk" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-41926974924042553622024-02-14T22:25:00.000-08:002024-02-14T22:25:59.291-08:00Notations From the Grid (Weekly Edition): #RandomThoughts For the Week <p> </p><table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-7196462294860181570responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_-7196462294860181570responsive-cell" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;" valign="top"><img class="m_-7196462294860181570mobile-image-stretch-enabled CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgM-m9KaxW4th0iujBiOLtAMP0dT4hvte2xisrz4KfZEifnE7LNWcGCJ-9JOIxAR96790isdPh39amDT7zD2N82ALq3HJsEl32tUmx-9oz7nGbxtW7HPpoyEKW0e_xxB3LYB8Za59-Kfi6412W4mLj4d6PEs-CB-fHDmQe0O040ypuUZNsshyphenhyphenJsYPNkZuVNp4R5iXWTFZPtt0PeAsc034rAFO4=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_-7196462294860181570responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="background-color: #0000ee; color: #262626; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: white;"> </span></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="m_-7196462294860181570responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;">Breathe deeply and slowly. Let yourself become centered - shutting out distractions. Breathe in eternal peace, and let your body fill with unconditional love.<br /><br />At the center of your being you have the answer;<br />you know who you are and you know what you want.<br />- Lao Tzu<br /><br />A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others,<br />is stronger than any physical force in the universe.<br />- Wayne Dyer<br /><br />When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom<br />because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.<br />- Osho<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Those who cannot remember the past</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">are condemned to repeat it.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">- George Santayana</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Who has fully realized that history</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">is not contained in thick books</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">but lives in our very blood?</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">- Carl Jung</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">There are recurring cycles, ups and downs,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">but the course of events is essentially the same, with small variations.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">It has been said that history repeats itself.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">- Theodor Reik (sometimes falsely attributed to Mark Twain)</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Study the past, if you would divine the future.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">- Confucius</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">The importance of history is in its</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">educational value for our lives today,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">not in regret, resentment, or revenge.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">- Jonathan Lockwood Huie</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-1092281392248541162024-02-10T00:00:00.000-08:002024-02-10T00:00:00.129-08:00#OutsiderVibes (W-End Edition): Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara with Hrithik Roshan et. al<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/TKLd-83wYBY?si=jlqbQjxRdZrhnieh" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-1775975593544000342024-02-02T23:38:00.000-08:002024-02-02T23:38:02.045-08:00#OutsiderVibes (Special Edition): Baby Boom<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/jGmD38qe7Fw?si=De2Vje99R_rAig_v" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-47149998905501458832024-01-31T21:48:00.000-08:002024-01-31T21:48:00.199-08:00On Our Final "Virtual Route 66" For January 2024 <p> </p><div style="color: #222222; 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font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><strong>PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:</strong></h2><div style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); color: black; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px;">The ability <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/l2hehmh3ld0gnrc6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zdG9pYy1yZXNwb25zZS1hbmdlci8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1706587540843000&usg=AOvVaw0Bg6sLyzY92DuhQ04B_jrw" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/l2hehmh3ld0gnrc6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zdG9pYy1yZXNwb25zZS1hbmdlci8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">to deal with frustration</a>, to not be ruled by our temper, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/m2h7h5h83lgrqwam/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9qdXN0LWRvLXRoZS13b3JrLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1706587540843000&usg=AOvVaw0d9E-1zSnAw6Xq8-zlS2s9" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/m2h7h5h83lgrqwam/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9qdXN0LWRvLXRoZS13b3JrLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">to catch ourselves when we’re comparing</a>, to stop ourselves when we start to spiral, these don’t seem like happy things. But that’s the point: By dealing with them, we make happiness possible.</div><p style="color: black; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Read: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/e0hph7h07dpxl6i8/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9pZi15b3Utd2FudC10by1iZS1oYXBweS1kby10aGlzLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1706587540843000&usg=AOvVaw0y44I9paNhSiCOU10utbb-" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/e0hph7h07dpxl6i8/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9pZi15b3Utd2FudC10by1iZS1oYXBweS1kby10aGlzLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">If You Want To Be Happy, Do This</a></p><hr style="margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 24px;" /><h2 style="color: black; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:</h2><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/7qh7h8ho9xkg6lfz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1RTGpkdm80QU9ubw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1706587540843000&usg=AOvVaw2Ug8pgid1jvQ4ot8RPlvj4" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/7qh7h8ho9xkg6lfz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1RTGpkdm80QU9ubw==" style="border: 0px; color: #0875c1; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 480px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 480px;" target="_blank"><img alt="video preview" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhOl71PyroakqQEtzCCuMB2R3dN0v1muvEBjlPfyEHm43K2IaoJMYM_5qN0AJaR9wIcjpSfM7SGKBfgUqFHa6XyD4LPi8Om_2WJEICg-7D5fNlMhyqIkvG1ITLX8JqWJlT_SYStCZ1VGxhQkwAhGqDcyT3vYNY7GLRX_Up1-_XHcdGgcuN98F_33XVSnErlXbDTUottw2VxC_218hQfBjxiXSBrqFocNt3ykmmzqskkvNY1h_F27pAzdaCViv_g9JYOF-VgR1U1nqVhB7HPlNa7hO8Baw0IULEjxO0ga2Aoh4gCTjFIPJIWBaXdzqd1dXI=s0-d-e1-ft&accent=%23ffffff&thumbnailof=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQLjdvo4AOno&width=480&height=270&fit=contain" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 0px none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; outline: none;" width="480" /></a><p style="color: black; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">In a recent video on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/z2hghnh3em4gkvip/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vYy9EYWlseVN0b2ljL3ZpZGVvcw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1706587540843000&usg=AOvVaw3JsZaOMlGA2INBr0MKjGKY" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/z2hghnh3em4gkvip/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vYy9EYWlseVN0b2ljL3ZpZGVvcw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel</a>, Ryan Holiday shares how the struggle to find motivation and discard anxiety isn’t anything new. The Stoics felt that, too. But they also remind us that we always have the choice to look deeper inside ourselves:</p><div style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); color: black; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px;">“Seneca says ‘he who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than necessary…We suffer more in imagination than in reality.’ What he means is we anticipate what could happen, what might happen. We torture ourselves in advance, and that’s what anxiety is. And then Marcus Aurelius writes in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/p8heh9hz4p3v2whq/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1706587540843000&usg=AOvVaw2Lnp1kSytRciOWBEFTfIue" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/p8heh9hz4p3v2whq/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Meditations</a>, ‘Today I escaped my anxiety.’ Then he says wait—I discarded it, because it was <em>in me</em>. Things don’t make us anxious, we make ourselves anxious. We have control over it, which means we can solve for it.”</div><table style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/7qh7h8ho9xkg6lfz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1RTGpkdm80QU9ubw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1706587540843000&usg=AOvVaw2Ug8pgid1jvQ4ot8RPlvj4" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/7qh7h8ho9xkg6lfz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1RTGpkdm80QU9ubw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #dfc141; border-radius: 4px; border: 0px solid rgb(223, 193, 65); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 12px 20px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><strong>Watch 20 Inspiring 1 Minute Clips of Stoicism</strong><strong></strong><strong></strong></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color: black; 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display: block;" target="_blank"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjoF8jC-FMiUssbPjDf45JheGz0iAPfixFjLBwV8f45ucu76XFjDDzWolRr7rN9L54WfhlQk-M6pNsP3v2Jco5YgEdYJ-PrgxcPn7EQ6Cb5NZdyQUv14GTjwMWWJT2XRJGlE70XFKkxDlkcBDxJWDmzfI1AKy4utfp-f2TJM7tVVgJWHYt2PTDfVhCd7hw=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 0px none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 470px;" width="470" /></a></figure></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="color: black; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">In a recent episode of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/e0hph7h07dpxldh8/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0Lw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1706587540843000&usg=AOvVaw304Gp0Gsk69nxLiPSfjY5P" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/e0hph7h07dpxldh8/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wb2RjYXN0Lw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">The Daily Stoic Podcast</a>, Ryan Holiday speaks with author and investor Tim Ferriss on the essence of Stoicism, exaggerating the downside of things, and the proper way to view decision-making:</p><div style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); color: black; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px;">“Some of the commonly used language about decisions is that ‘there’s a fork in the road.’ And you have to choose, because a fork implies that going backwards is very difficult….At least the way that I try to view them is more like walking into a closet and choosing what sweater you want to put on. You don’t like it, put it back on the rack. Go back to the one you were wearing before. In a lot of ways, it’s a much more appropriate way to view things—that it is just a pause, it is just a temporary experience that you can zig-zag with.”</div><table style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/dpheh0h0e243opbm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS90aW0tZmVycmlzcy1vbi1tYWtpbmctYmV0dGVyLWRlY2lzaW9ucy1hbmQtc29sdmluZy1wcm9ibGVtcy1wdC0xLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1706587540843000&usg=AOvVaw0y8WG17icF5VZYTGbhKDJX" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvu4ewzve5b5hgvx97lb9te9qplqq/dpheh0h0e243opbm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS90aW0tZmVycmlzcy1vbi1tYWtpbmctYmV0dGVyLWRlY2lzaW9ucy1hbmQtc29sdmluZy1wcm9ibGVtcy1wdC0xLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: #dfc141; border-radius: 4px; border: 0px solid rgb(223, 193, 65); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 12px 20px; text-decoration-line: none; width: auto;" target="_blank"><strong>Listen To This Episode</strong></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-84555637436557502432024-01-26T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-26T00:00:00.152-08:00On Our "Virtual Route 66" With #RandomThoughts For the Week <p> </p><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; padding: 0px !important;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float: none; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="display: inline-block; margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 800px; width: 600px;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEis_KV6h9v2NZ5YV3WWSCInfYWW35Oy9V9_f6vdaGITY3J45GLmRXHCqT6VsPW7io7jjEIuIKV8Sf_0hyOu9B5ISKsvgbf_Ug4KJgH-oTDze1_hGpqALvdsg_UCOxYFQwSDTJsShrq2Sl9XOozIJqkxiFz2-x5yjHeg0CG-cEIOpK4-PniEivU=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">It wasn’t great. It was heartbreaking. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/l2hehmh3lrk8ovu6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9hc3N1bWUtZXZlcnlvbmUtaXMtbHlpbmctMi8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw1KlRMZ9opel08FeGLWnw9M" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/l2hehmh3lrk8ovu6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9hc3N1bWUtZXZlcnlvbmUtaXMtbHlpbmctMi8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">They lied to us</a>. They stole from us. They betrayed the faith and confidence we had in them. We thought better of people and then people showed us who they are…</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">It’s a story as old as it gets. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/m2h7h5h83endo7bm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tYXJjdXMtYXVyZWxpdXMv&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw0rpyfeCjk1tbAzvIUDXnnL" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/m2h7h5h83endo7bm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tYXJjdXMtYXVyZWxpdXMv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Marcus Aurelius</a> felt it when Cassius attempted his coup. Maybe he felt it with his step brother Lucius Verus. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/dpheh0h0e57lq7fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9lcGljdGV0dXMv&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw2Z102_TiK_L7h-PI3fmzPn" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/dpheh0h0e57lq7fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9lcGljdGV0dXMv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Epictetus</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/e0hph7h074n8kkt8/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9ob3ctdG8tb3duLXRoaW5ncy8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw2iPQLLihlVUaEzHQpMjaad" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/e0hph7h074n8kkt8/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9ob3ctdG8tb3duLXRoaW5ncy8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">waking up to find his house broken into</a>, his shrine desecrated. Imagine the feeling of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/7qh7h8ho9z4r0oiz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wdWJsaXVzLXJ1dGlsaXVzLXJ1ZnVzLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw0IqRAGp_wAdiqOqL4vPw82" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/7qh7h8ho9z4r0oiz/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wdWJsaXVzLXJ1dGlsaXVzLXJ1ZnVzLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Rutilius Rufus</a>, learning that he’d been found <em>guilty</em> of trumped up charges by his peers back in Rome (this story in in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/owhkhqhrwo824wsv/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9saXZlcy1vZi10aGUtc3RvaWNzLXNpZ25lZC1lZGl0aW9u&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw18FDyHZH-rtePzl9ULny67" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/owhkhqhrwo824wsv/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9saXZlcy1vZi10aGUtc3RvaWNzLXNpZ25lZC1lZGl0aW9u" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Lives of the Stoics</em></a>).</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Marcus Aurelius would say that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/z2hghnh3ewdqopap/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kb250LWdldC1ldmVuLWdldC1qdXN0aWNlLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw3QfMLiU2a2xdiYMsQLpi6z" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/z2hghnh3ewdqopap/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kb250LWdldC1ldmVuLWdldC1qdXN0aWNlLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">the best revenge for these kinds of things</a><em>was to not be like that,</em> to not be like the people who had done such a thing. He’s right, but that doesn’t change that we’re still hurt. “Which way to forgiveness?” Tom Petty sings in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/p8heh9hz4x7n9xhq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1wRFBxMVFiR0FBaw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw05w4zhbGBBVEKf6GzpfEPV" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/p8heh9hz4x7n9xhq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1wRFBxMVFiR0FBaw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">“It’s Time To Move On.”</a> It’d be wonderful if this was a destination we could head towards, somewhere that allows us to discharge the anger or resentment or grief we feel.</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">But there isn’t. It’s not a light switch. It is instead work that we have to do. The comedian Pete Holmes (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/x0hph6hwe375nxb5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9ob2xtZXMv&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw3LuCbI3vPabNUR9FK3RsG7" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/x0hph6hwe375nxb5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9ob2xtZXMv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">a great Daily Stoic podcast episode here</a>) has talked about how whenever he thinks of his parents, he tries to say to himself “I forgive them.” It’s not a magical incantation, but it’s part of the work, part of the healing. We can imagine Rusticus in exile, trying not to be consumed by bitterness, trying to remember that the people who did this to him were human, were flawed, were suffering their own consequences for choosing to be this way. We can imagine Marcus Aurelius trying to practice clemency for his enemies (<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/6qheh8h7lo2mpxfo/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9ob3ctdG8ta2VlcC15b3VyLWNvb2wtYW4tYW5jaWVudC1ndWlkZS10by1hbmdlci1tYW5hZ2VtZW50P19wb3M9NCZfc2lkPTZlODQ5ZDQ0ZCZfc3M9cg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705814870561000&usg=AOvVaw3qMQnmhyeD2DfeAKK6OF-v" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/k0uqp07zpka6hdrrl99ixi8x7k277/6qheh8h7lo2mpxfo/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9ob3ctdG8ta2VlcC15b3VyLWNvb2wtYW4tYW5jaWVudC1ndWlkZS10by1hbmdlci1tYW5hZ2VtZW50P19wb3M9NCZfc2lkPTZlODQ5ZDQ0ZCZfc3M9cg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">perhaps he even read Seneca’s essay on this very topic</a>!).</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Forgiveness is hard work. It doesn’t come immediately or easily. But it’s the only thing that will heal us. The only way we can keep going in this life.</p></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; padding: 0px !important;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="float: none; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="display: inline-block; margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 800px; width: 600px;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEis_KV6h9v2NZ5YV3WWSCInfYWW35Oy9V9_f6vdaGITY3J45GLmRXHCqT6VsPW7io7jjEIuIKV8Sf_0hyOu9B5ISKsvgbf_Ug4KJgH-oTDze1_hGpqALvdsg_UCOxYFQwSDTJsShrq2Sl9XOozIJqkxiFz2-x5yjHeg0CG-cEIOpK4-PniEivU=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">When you consider the insane amounts of money that some people feel the need to accumulate, when you see their estates, when you see them pinch every penny, what they’ll do for a dollar, when you reckon with the costs—to family and friends—it took to earn all this, you might assume they get to take it all with them when they die.</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Of course, we don’t. The Roman poet Juvenal joked that while Alexander was living, the whole world could not contain him, but in death, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5v8l3vtmi3d7pv77/z2hghnh3enkwl8bp/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kb2VzLWl0LW1lYXN1cmUtdXAv&source=gmail&ust=1705814287025000&usg=AOvVaw2oe9Ozv386qmJVpKk10wN3" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5v8l3vtmi3d7pv77/z2hghnh3enkwl8bp/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kb2VzLWl0LW1lYXN1cmUtdXAv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">a coffin was sufficient</a>. The humbling wisdom of this joke is one we ought to remember too, as we save ‘for retirement,’ as we ‘invest for the future,’ as we ‘build our legacy.’</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">It’s very cheap to be dead.</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">You won’t need any of this when you’re gone. You won’t be able to <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5v8l3vtmi3d7pv77/p8heh9hz4m2xq7bq/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9mYW1lLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1705814287025000&usg=AOvVaw0h5kYja7KBHKG-pf3FWBVD" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5v8l3vtmi3d7pv77/p8heh9hz4m2xq7bq/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9mYW1lLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">appreciate your posthumous fame</a>, as <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5v8l3vtmi3d7pv77/kkhmh6hlnr5mxnhl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tYXJjdXMtYXVyZWxpdXMv&source=gmail&ust=1705814287026000&usg=AOvVaw3orh2jY17wyl60B9jTR6XL" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/4zuxe7n3emheh5v8l3vtmi3d7pv77/kkhmh6hlnr5mxnhl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tYXJjdXMtYXVyZWxpdXMv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Marcus Aurelius</a> pointed out, just as you won’t be able to reap the appreciation of your investments. Your legacy, your intellectual property rights, your real property—all of it will become utterly irrelevant to you one day soon. All of it will become completely worthless…not objectively but subjectively.</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Can you let that sink in? Can you make better—more temperate, moderate—decisions today in light of it?</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-80461348183814098752024-01-18T00:00:00.000-08:002024-01-18T00:00:00.347-08:00On Our Weekly VIrtual Route This Week: #RandomThoughts For the Week <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">We present the following for review as the Week draws to a close: </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCaanuFh9x858YbHPEmBQHSSVxTB20DXNkNMUKkoj2QpETAgD-DkLIXmijvLdDquHR5eu07a_pBrp3DH8-op1CFWLfX_iA1JVsXELf4GYSBpBSX5JwOiTmEQtXfqVbU1D3v6Ha4KAlyJT3ZC2seaOQIU0qSFt0YwG5Beeu5CH-tx-G0oZprMbyMg/s600/Conquer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="600" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCaanuFh9x858YbHPEmBQHSSVxTB20DXNkNMUKkoj2QpETAgD-DkLIXmijvLdDquHR5eu07a_pBrp3DH8-op1CFWLfX_iA1JVsXELf4GYSBpBSX5JwOiTmEQtXfqVbU1D3v6Ha4KAlyJT3ZC2seaOQIU0qSFt0YwG5Beeu5CH-tx-G0oZprMbyMg/s320/Conquer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/25h2hoh2e690g8c3/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvdGhlc2UtMTQtc21hbGwtbWluZHNldC1zaGlmdHMtd2lsbC1jaGFuZ2UteW91ci1saWZlLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw05SeV1L4M-PsQCWnzSlOK3" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/25h2hoh2e690g8c3/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvdGhlc2UtMTQtc21hbGwtbWluZHNldC1zaGlmdHMtd2lsbC1jaGFuZ2UteW91ci1saWZlLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">These 14 Small Mindset Shifts Will Change Your Life</a></span></h2><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; float: none; font-size: small; table-layout: fixed; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="display: inline-block; margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 600px; width: 600px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/25h2hoh2e690g8c3/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvdGhlc2UtMTQtc21hbGwtbWluZHNldC1zaGlmdHMtd2lsbC1jaGFuZ2UteW91ci1saWZlLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw05SeV1L4M-PsQCWnzSlOK3" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/25h2hoh2e690g8c3/aHR0cHM6Ly9yeWFuaG9saWRheS5uZXQvdGhlc2UtMTQtc21hbGwtbWluZHNldC1zaGlmdHMtd2lsbC1jaGFuZ2UteW91ci1saWZlLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89; display: block;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><img class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="auto" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjmtV5II263jc570lZTn2-LePcFontdprZJ8cEgLd1YDWjPWJLsx6HVprvrTcIMoh_3uyUkbeiT0JgIjwpThr5Cq8bt5U9KNZ5FRMwnC98CBWyOeFeKVHBaJSWuywRbOgYNWuRol8KdgPzuPsSKwgELAwKQZ2npCJMVY5ZrSuhiLBjygnPU__Y=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 4px; border: 0px none; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; object-fit: contain; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; width: 600px;" width="600" /></span></a></figure></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">For the most part, we can’t change the world. We can’t change the fundamental facts of existence–like the fact that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/qvh8h7hr0zw2vvfl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tZW1lbnRvLW1vcmkv&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw1ENA_fMGmlrDM8nclYxM-P" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/qvh8h7hr0zw2vvfl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tZW1lbnRvLW1vcmkv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">we’re going to die</a>. We can’t change other people.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Does that mean that everything is hopeless and permanently broken?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">No, because although we have that extreme powerlessness in one sense, we have an incredible superpower in another: We can change how we think about things. We can change how we view them, how we orient ourselves <em>to</em> them.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">That’s the essence of Stoicism, by the way. The idea that we don’t control what happens, but <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/9qhzhnhpl0w3xlb9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj0zU1RqT0ttdUpoYyZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw0DME0Z2Qn5sbpBNSzu49FD" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/9qhzhnhpl0w3xlb9/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj0zU1RqT0ttdUpoYyZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">we do control ourselves</a>. When we respond to what happens, the main thing we control is our mind and the story we tell ourselves.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">So one way to think about Stoicism itself then is as a collection of mindset shifts for the many situations that life seems to thrust us in. Indeed, Seneca’s <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/n2hohvh3kmq5gna6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5MTM_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9ZmI4OTJjYmE0Jl9zcz1y&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw3U9UDtMbpQfXOmtAygrwGQ" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/n2hohvh3kmq5gna6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5MTM_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9ZmI4OTJjYmE0Jl9zcz1y" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Letters</em></a><em>,</em> Marcus Aurelius’ <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/wnh2hghw3n7v4qf7/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw3VTdKr1soQ9N7tU9f_L7a1" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/wnh2hghw3n7v4qf7/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a><em>,</em> and Epictetus’ <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/vqh3hrhpdl034mag/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5ND9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD04OGU0MjljYWQmX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw3Fqg_ccRZnDrdn_GYDnc9U" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/vqh3hrhpdl034mag/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9waGlsb3NvcGh5ND9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD04OGU0MjljYWQmX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Discourses</em></a> are filled with passages, anecdotes, and quotes which force a shift in perspective.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Here are 14 that I have taken from the Stoics over the years that have changed my life. I think they’ll do the same for you.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Everything is an opportunity for excellence.</strong> The now famous passage from Marcus Aurelius is that the impediment to action advances action, that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/l2hehmh3ze2v4ec6/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtb2JzdGFjbGUtaXMtdGhlLXdheS1tZWRhbGxpb24%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw0H2LG6lwNNGYHBKpZRTGrd" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/l2hehmh3ze2v4ec6/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtb2JzdGFjbGUtaXMtdGhlLXdheS1tZWRhbGxpb24=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">what stands in the way becomes the way</a><em>.</em> But do you know what he was talking about specifically? He was talking about difficult people! He was saying that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/m2h7h5h87v5095im/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj0yU09pektLdTBHZyZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw2-d2SAoCVnXwvbtnFJa3fj" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/m2h7h5h87v5095im/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj0yU09pektLdTBHZyZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">difficult people are an opportunity</a> to practice excellence and virtue–be it forgiveness or patience or cheerfulness. And so it goes for all the things that are not in our control in life. So when I find myself in situations big and small, positive or negative, I try to see each of them as an opportunity for me to be the best I’m capable of being in that moment. It doesn’t matter who we are, where we are, we can always do this.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Every event has two handles</strong>, Epictetus said: “one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can’t. If your brother does you wrong, don’t grab it by his wronging, because this is the handle incapable of lifting it. Instead, use the other—that he is your brother, that you were raised together, and then you will have hold of the handle that carries.” Another way to say that is that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/dpheh0h0mv6wknum/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS90d28td2F5cy1tYXRoLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw24omVwQJYRa2ZXxvfTz4Ql" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/dpheh0h0mv6wknum/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS90d28td2F5cy1tYXRoLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">there are multiple ways to look at every situation</a>, multiple ways to determine how you’re going to react. Some of them are sturdy and some of them are not. Some are kind and resilient, some are not. Which will you choose? Which handle will you grab?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>The world is dyed by the color of your thoughts.</strong> Marcus said, “The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes the color of your thoughts.” He also said, “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” If you see the world as a negative, horrible place, you’re right. If you look for shittiness, you will see shittiness. If you believe that you were screwed, you’re right. But if you look for <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/owhkhqhr7p9ln2uv/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1aMHNyUU9fcVlpOCZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw1alJwk3I89AFjrzHId4tlO" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/owhkhqhr7p9ln2uv/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1aMHNyUU9fcVlpOCZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">beauty in the mundane</a>, you’ll see it. If you look for evidence of goodness in people, you’ll find it. If you decide to see the agency and power you do have over your life (which as we’ve said is largely in how we think), well, you’ll find you have quite a bit.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>There is a tax on everything.</strong> Taxes aren’t just from the government. Seneca wrote to his friend Lucilius, “All the things which cause complaint or dread are like the taxes of life—things from which, my dear Lucilius, you should never hope for exemption or seek escape.” Annoying people are a tax on being outside your house. Delays are a tax on travel. Haters are a tax on having <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/p8heh9hzlm65dptq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vQERhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw1B9AcHbiFYpznwNRCmQlUQ" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/p8heh9hzlm65dptq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vQERhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">a YouTube channel</a>. There’s a tax on money too–and the more successful you are, the more you pay. Seneca said he tried to pay the taxes gladly. I love that. After all, it’s usually a sign of a good problem. It means you had a killer year financially. It means you’re alive and breathing. You can whine about the cost. Or you can pay and move on.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Poverty isn’t only having too little.</strong> Of course, not having what you need to survive is insufficient. But what about people who have a lot…but are insatiable? Who are plagued by envy and comparison? Both Marcus Aurelius and Seneca talk about rich people who are not content with what they have and are thus quite poor. But feeling like you have ‘enough’–<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/dpheh0h0mv6wk3bm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93aGF0LWRvZXMtaXQtbWVhbi10by1iZS13ZWFsdGh5Lw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw2M3kHn0eXdtWbW_5u2sBvz" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/dpheh0h0mv6wk3bm/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93aGF0LWRvZXMtaXQtbWVhbi10by1iZS13ZWFsdGh5Lw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">that’s rich no matter what your income is</a>.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Alive time or Dead time?</strong> This isn’t from the Stoics exactly, but close enough. Robert Greene once told me there were two types of time in life: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/7qh7h8homqlppkuz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1JYUtUOVBoOENoVSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw3j2krKeq2N9fTJq-FoZF8u" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/7qh7h8homqlppkuz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1JYUtUOVBoOENoVSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Alive time and Dead time</a>. One is when you sit around, when you wait until things happen to you. The other is when you are using that time productively, actively. You’re stuck at the airport–you don’t control that. You decide whether it’s alive time or dead time (you read a book, you take a walk, you call your grandmother). I had a year left on a job when Robert gave me that advice. I could have just sat on my hands. Instead, it was an incredibly productive period of reading and researching and filling boxes of notecards that helped me write <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/owhkhqhr7p9ll6bv/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtb2JzdGFjbGUtaXMtdGhlLXdheS1zaWduZWQtZWRpdGlvbg%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw1YmPJ0wcoIRNMTNj7E1sQD" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/owhkhqhr7p9ll6bv/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy90aGUtb2JzdGFjbGUtaXMtdGhlLXdheS1zaWduZWQtZWRpdGlvbg==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>The Obstacle is the Way</em></a><em> </em>and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/p8heh9hzlm6555iq/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9lZ28taXMtdGhlLWVuZW15LXNpZ25lZC1lZGl0aW9u&source=gmail&ust=1704754896588000&usg=AOvVaw0thYRjdb18KHK0kkuD7Vdw" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/p8heh9hzlm6555iq/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9lZ28taXMtdGhlLWVuZW15LXNpZ25lZC1lZGl0aW9u" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Ego is the Enemy</em></a><em>.</em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Anxiety isn’t escaped. It’s discarded.</strong> This was a breakthrough I had during the pandemic. Suddenly, I had a lot less to worry about. I wasn’t doing the things that, in the past, I told myself were <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/x0hph6hwlo2ddlc5/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1leXROaVB5MHhnMCZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896589000&usg=AOvVaw116bigSlH29yg0xa9O4q4D" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/x0hph6hwlo2ddlc5/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1leXROaVB5MHhnMCZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">the causes of my anxiety</a>. I wasn’t having to get to a plane. I wasn’t battling traffic to get somewhere on time. I wasn’t having to prepare for this talk or that one. So you’d think that my anxiety would have gone way down. But it didn’t. And what I realized is that anxiety has nothing to do with any of these things. The airport isn’t the one to blame. I am! Marcus Aurelius actually talks about this in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/kkhmh6hl3rw228al/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896589000&usg=AOvVaw3HkDZx5r8Zz8qOKg4sz9-a" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/kkhmh6hl3rw228al/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a>. “Today I escaped from anxiety,” he says. “Or no, I <em>discarded</em> it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.” It’s not your parents that are frustrating you. They’re just doing what they do. You are the source of the frustration. That’s a little frustrating, but it’s also freeing. Because it means you can stop it! <em>Y</em>ou can choose to discard it.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>It’s the surprise that kills you.</strong> Stuff is going to happen, but what makes it harder is when it catches us off guard. The unexpected blow lands heaviest, Seneca said. That’s why we should practice the art of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/58hvh7hmzqxooma6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcmVtZWRpdGF0aW8tbWFsb3J1bS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896589000&usg=AOvVaw1V-d-vGI48vu4w1lzQbfaI" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/58hvh7hmzqxooma6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcmVtZWRpdGF0aW8tbWFsb3J1bS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">premeditatio malorum</a><em>–</em>essentially, a pre-mortem of the things that could happen in a day or a life. This takes the sting out of them in advance…it also lets us prepare and prevent. And for no one is this more important than parents and leaders. Seneca said that the one thing a leader is not allowed to say is, “Wow, I didn’t think that was going to happen.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>You can’t learn what you think you already know</strong>. Conceit, Zeno said, was the enemy of wisdom and learning. This was the essential worldview of Socrates, the hero of the Stoics. Think of Socrates’ method. He didn’t go around <em>telling</em> people anything. He went around asking questions. That’s how he learned so much and ended up becoming so smart. If you want to get smarter, stop thinking you’re so smart. If you want to learn, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/25h2hoh2e69003u3/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS95b3UtaGF2ZS10by1sZWFybi1zb21ldGhpbmctZnJvbS1ldmVyeW9uZS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896589000&usg=AOvVaw1xrnluGooC_wUAcxWJClPz" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/25h2hoh2e69003u3/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS95b3UtaGF2ZS10by1sZWFybi1zb21ldGhpbmctZnJvbS1ldmVyeW9uZS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">focus on all the things you don’t know</a>. Humility, admission of ignorance–these are the starting points. This is the attitude that gets you further in life.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>What good is posthumous fame?</strong> Marcus Aurelius knew he was famous. He knew they were building statues of him. He knew he would have a legacy. He also knew this was basically worthless. What good is posthumous fame, he asks in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/kkhmh6hl3rw228al/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896589000&usg=AOvVaw3HkDZx5r8Zz8qOKg4sz9-a" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/kkhmh6hl3rw228al/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a>, when you’re not around to enjoy it?! He reminded himself too that you know, it’s not like the people in the future were going to be way better than the people alive right now–there will be idiots in the future too. What do I care about how many people read my books in 100 years? What matters is if I am doing my best right now, if I am taking pleasure and pride from doing my best right now. So stop trying to live forever by achieving all this greatness, stop trying to get more than you need, stop trying to perform for history. Do the good you can do now. Stop chasing something you will never touch. Legacy is not for you. You’ll be dead. Leave it to others.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>People are just doing their job.</strong> I don’t just mean at work. After bumping into a particularly frustrating person, Marcus Aurelius asks himself, “Is a world without shamelessness possible?” No, he answers. “There have to be shameless people in the world. This is one of them.” This is just someone fulfilling their role. Seeing things this way not only prevents me from being surprised, but it makes me sympathetic. <em>This person has a crappy job.It’s not fun to be them–they have to be one of the jerks that exist in the world.</em> And then I remind myself that I am lucky that my job is to try to be a good person.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>They don’t want you to be miserable</strong>. It’s strange that Stoics have the reputation for being unfeeling when Seneca wrote three very beautiful essays on loss and grief called <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/qvh8h7hr0zw22oal/aHR0cHM6Ly9nZW5pLnVzL0ZpZVBP&source=gmail&ust=1704754896589000&usg=AOvVaw1zvLrKwAIbsva7es_ZYqhE" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/qvh8h7hr0zw22oal/aHR0cHM6Ly9nZW5pLnVzL0ZpZVBP" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><em>Consolations</em></a><em>.</em> I read these essays whenever I lose someone or miss someone who I loved. Anyway, one of the lessons that hit me the most is when he is writing to the daughter of a now-deceased friend. He brings up a great point, basically saying, look, your dad loved you so much. Of course, he would be honored that you miss him, but do you think he would want his death to make you miserable? Would he want the mere mention of his name to bring you pain? No, that would be his worst nightmare. He would want you to be happy. He would want you to go on with your life. He wouldn’t want his memory to haunt you like a ghost–he would want the thought of him to bring you joy and happiness. Of course, we’re always going to feel sad when we lose someone, but then we can remind ourselves of this and try to smile too.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Opinions are optional.</strong> “Remember, you always have the power to have no opinion,” Marcus says. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/g3hnh5h3kr9oopbr/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9pdHMtcG9zc2libGUtdG8tdHVuZS10aGVzZS10aGluZ3Mtb3V0Lw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896589000&usg=AOvVaw0Y--MrgySTDPKh8njn1a2v" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/g3hnh5h3kr9oopbr/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9pdHMtcG9zc2libGUtdG8tdHVuZS10aGVzZS10aGluZ3Mtb3V0Lw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">Do you need to have an opinion</a> about the weather today–is it changing anything? Do you need to have an opinion about the way your kid does their hair? So what if this person likes music that sounds weird to you? So what if that person is a vegetarian? “These things are not asking to be judged by you,” Marcus writes. “Leave them alone.” Especially because these opinions often make us miserable! “It’s not things that upset us,” Epictetus says, “it’s our opinions about things.” The less opinions you have, especially about other people and things outside your control, the happier you will be. The nicer you’ll be to be around too.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">__</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">The last one is the most powerful one, I think. And it’s about the thing we have the least amount of power and control over: the fact that we’re all going to die.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">But the Stoics want us to think about it differently…</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;"><strong>Death isn’t in the future. It’s happening now.</strong> It’s easy to see death as this thing that lies off in the distant future. It’s a fixed event that happens to us once…at the end. This is literally true but it’s also incorrect. “This is our big mistake,” as Seneca points out, “to think we look forward toward death. Most of death is already gone. Whatever time has passed is owned by death.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">It’s better to think of death as a process—something that is always happening. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/9qhzhnhpl0w33nf9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS95b3UtYXJlLWR5aW5nLWV2ZXJ5LWRheS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1704754896589000&usg=AOvVaw3jamzmnYDRwCRC9IwJn1qq" href="https://click.convertkit-mail4.com/gkuw6wlem0c5hdpx362h3u503ze99/9qhzhnhpl0w33nf9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS95b3UtYXJlLWR5aW5nLWV2ZXJ5LWRheS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">We are dying every day</a>, he said. Even as you read this email, time is passing that you will never get back. That time, he said, belongs to death. Powerful, right? Death doesn’t lie off in the distance. It’s with us right now. It’s the second hand on the clock. It’s the setting sun. As the arrow of time moves, death follows, claiming every moment that has passed. What ought we do about it? The answer is live. Live while you can. Put nothing off. Leave nothing unfinished. Seize it while it still belongs to us.</span></p><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-27744392454594677752023-12-31T08:34:00.000-08:002023-12-31T08:37:06.474-08:00Happy New Year!!!<iframe width="735" height="735" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BH4VZe_8sbU" title="LIVE: New Year 2024 Celebrations | Hong Kong, Tokyo, Taipei Fireworks | World Welcomes 2024 | IN18L" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></div></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: start;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Unfortunately, it’s been happening for a long time: People doing horrible things to each other. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/owhkhqhr4qnkz5sv/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zdG9pYy1yZXNwb25zZS1iZXRyYXlhbC8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1701266019199000&usg=AOvVaw1XoaRuj4IDJoLC2he7vCcV" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/owhkhqhr4qnkz5sv/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zdG9pYy1yZXNwb25zZS1iZXRyYXlhbC8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Marcus Aurelius was betrayed</a>. Seneca was exiled on trumped-up charges. There were Stoics who were cheated on. There were <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/z2hghnh3ol74g5ap/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9pZi15b3Utd2VyZS10cmllZC13b3VsZC15b3UtYmUtY29udmljdGVkLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1701266019199000&usg=AOvVaw3DHm3m8r5cqkpV239_SKGY" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/z2hghnh3ol74g5ap/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9pZi15b3Utd2VyZS10cmllZC13b3VsZC15b3UtYmUtY29udmljdGVkLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Stoics who were persecuted</a>. Stoics who were tortured.</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">How did they get over it? Did they get even? Get justice? The great Dr. Edith Eger (whose <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/p8heh9hz9qd3vmsq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9zZWFyY2g_dHlwZT1wcm9kdWN0JnE9RHIuK0VkaXRoK0VnZXIq&source=gmail&ust=1701266019199000&usg=AOvVaw1YtjO893cClDVje01invra" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/p8heh9hz9qd3vmsq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9zZWFyY2g_dHlwZT1wcm9kdWN0JnE9RHIuK0VkaXRoK0VnZXIq" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">books</a> we highly recommend and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/x0hph6hwnqzrg2h5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kci1lZGl0aC1lZ2VyLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1701266019199000&usg=AOvVaw0GiThFaA7XI-1kRJTYDm8g" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/x0hph6hwnqzrg2h5/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kci1lZGl0aC1lZ2VyLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">has been on The Daily Stoic Podcast twice</a>) endured the Holocaust at Auschwitz. She was a victim of one of the most heinous crimes in human history. How did she get over it? Did she get even? Get justice?</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">As she <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/6qheh8h7p9wkqeuo/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9EckVkaXRoRWdlcjEvc3RhdHVzLzE2NzE5NjQ3MTE1NjExNjY4NDk%3D&source=gmail&ust=1701266019199000&usg=AOvVaw2283aI5z5MdYKqw1h0Axc0" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/6qheh8h7p9wkqeuo/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9EckVkaXRoRWdlcjEvc3RhdHVzLzE2NzE5NjQ3MTE1NjExNjY4NDk=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">recently said</a>,</p><div style="border-left: 5px solid rgb(225, 225, 225); color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px;">“My ultimate revenge against Hitler is kissing my great-grandchildren at the age of 95! I took back my power and decided not just to live but to thrive!”</div><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Marcus Aurelius reminded himself in his <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/kkhmh6hl8xed7qbl/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1701266019199000&usg=AOvVaw3uPiuKvCayDZLPSmhpJhjm" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/kkhmh6hl8xed7qbl/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a>, perhaps after his betrayal, that “<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/58hvh7hm560vedh6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS95b3VsbC1uZXZlci1nZXQteW91ci1wb3VuZC1vZi1mbGVzaC8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1701266019199000&usg=AOvVaw3IgxeqbVC-to4mC3KdvlLN" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/58hvh7hm560vedh6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS95b3VsbC1uZXZlci1nZXQteW91ci1wb3VuZC1vZi1mbGVzaC8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">the best revenge is to not be like that</a>.” He was saying that he had no choice about what was done to him, but he could choose not to be <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/25h2hoh27mgv5kh3/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93aGF0LXdpbGwtdGhpcy1jYXVzZS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1701266019199000&usg=AOvVaw1wrTSRRycxkCsqWKWq09iX" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/v8u6md9gmlsrhxmovmwczizrzkmll/25h2hoh27mgv5kh3/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93aGF0LXdpbGwtdGhpcy1jYXVzZS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">consumed by anger</a> or a need to punish. He could choose not to be bitter. He could choose to be happy and to do good, to hug his kids, and to live his life.</p><p style="color: black; font-family: Arial, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;">Whatever has been done to us—minor or major—we have this choice too. We can take back our power and decide not just to live but to thrive. We can decide to not be like the people who did us wrong. We can choose to be better, to be happy, to do good.</p></div></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-81801841273558094292023-11-23T00:00:00.000-08:002023-11-23T00:00:00.123-08:00On This Thanksgiving Day 2023 <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjoJCgdGh5ZEBqF-FfF5rF4VI7n0W5ZUXey3gza8cC0DPVxyoSHQ-KYPOEau63QoHjinviXY5kwhNjPvkrTC3Ty9PaeTVXyp_yAdlRPBdhGZZHyIHcBL5ykjG27CNCmDwBsB51QJ0pH7H6r3h48fO_9tPTJ6S4QAYC9K8DRjUuwg5qvVkx8vs2tw/s343/Thanksgiving.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="236" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjoJCgdGh5ZEBqF-FfF5rF4VI7n0W5ZUXey3gza8cC0DPVxyoSHQ-KYPOEau63QoHjinviXY5kwhNjPvkrTC3Ty9PaeTVXyp_yAdlRPBdhGZZHyIHcBL5ykjG27CNCmDwBsB51QJ0pH7H6r3h48fO_9tPTJ6S4QAYC9K8DRjUuwg5qvVkx8vs2tw/w440-h640/Thanksgiving.jpg" width="440" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-86250597354278160342023-11-22T00:00:00.000-08:002023-11-22T00:00:00.135-08:00On this Thanksgiving Eve 2023: #RandomThoughts <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"> Happy Thanksgiving and Best Wishes From all of us at the Daily Outsider. </span></p><table align="center" bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_4643738127079785737responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="max-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" class="m_4643738127079785737responsive-cell" style="display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px;" valign="top"><img class="m_4643738127079785737mobile-image-stretch-enabled CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEh8ffI-ZmpRDsiuG3CBC0aeADxexstZ_HIjMywbQvnTVWB2HktH2qHdoZwy7VztFsNryhnQk7tPuKTN-9vCrp48UVLI4h-GAkea7cprPRflRDOM8qwBCDOAZFfqOWyR3qaTXExXvsl6CcNWpau1FHp8aBdfEvHi_I7aAHQktFCnpZFqk8rCS5ZjARkYxaGYaVMRH5tz2nYvOAveaKZEEf7F4Nw=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-color: transparent; border-style: none; border-width: 0px; cursor: pointer; display: block; font-size: 12px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; width: 600px;" tabindex="0" width="600" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="left" class="m_4643738127079785737responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="background-color: #0000ee; color: #262626; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><div style="text-align: center;"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: white;"> </span></td></tr><tr><td align="center" class="m_4643738127079785737responsive-cell" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="left" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 10px;" valign="top"><div><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">About most subjects, there is not "The Truth;"</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Combo;">there is merely one's personal truth.<br />- Jonathan Lockwood Huie<br /><br />Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.<br />- Ludwig Boerne<br /><br />The problem with making assumptions<br />is that we believe they are the truth<br />- don Miguel Ruiz<br /><br />A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted<br />for insight and understanding.<br />- Marshall McLuhan<br /><br />The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.<br />- Oscar Wilde<br /><br />What if it were only an illusion?<br />Perhaps life is not as threatening as it appears.<br />Perhaps the greatest threat to our serenity<br />is our fear of the future -<br />our fear of the unknown.<br />Perhaps, as Franklin D. Roosevelt said,<br />"The Only Thing We Have to F</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 800px;"><div style="max-width: 800px;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEisUR1U6qd404dQj6RV10Eh-7FaWYluut0eNS1UtoscDhCM_95R2OdaWGe2xVYk4_Ni6tNzImiT45Y451YlPo9nYI2bGomjHQOtyRaRujR0RmGVaX21NvUMObwJgk-cnqnmTv-WvaLrkv5EkM1z3UpO4YWwUT6NgHKbz-1TbEb0Tz9885nb7iU=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></div></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Seneca thought he knew Nero. He was confident in his ability to teach or contain or even control him. Other Stoics knew better. Thrasea (whose story we tell in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/6qheh8h7pldq7dto/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9saXZlcy1vZi10aGUtc3RvaWNzLXNpZ25lZC1lZGl0aW9u&source=gmail&ust=1700452062256000&usg=AOvVaw2DksLWnuOAYXJBoBq-67PG" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/6qheh8h7pldq7dto/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9saXZlcy1vZi10aGUtc3RvaWNzLXNpZ25lZC1lZGl0aW9u" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Lives of the Stoics</em></a>) opposed him from the start. Agrippinus (another fascinating Stoic in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/6qheh8h7pldq7dto/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9saXZlcy1vZi10aGUtc3RvaWNzLXNpZ25lZC1lZGl0aW9u&source=gmail&ust=1700452062256000&usg=AOvVaw2DksLWnuOAYXJBoBq-67PG" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/6qheh8h7pldq7dto/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9saXZlcy1vZi10aGUtc3RvaWNzLXNpZ25lZC1lZGl0aW9u" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Lives</em></a><em>)</em> wouldn’t even attend Nero’s parties, because it was clear to him that the man was a tyrant.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Surely these men (and women) communicated their concerns to Seneca. Surely people raised questions. But Seneca thought he knew better. He was also <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/kkhmh6hl8n37l9fl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kb250LXRha2UtdGhlLW1vbmV5LWRvbnQtdGFrZS10aGUtbW9uZXkv&source=gmail&ust=1700452062256000&usg=AOvVaw15RKv-ssd3b88MVrW0jth-" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/kkhmh6hl8n37l9fl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9kb250LXRha2UtdGhlLW1vbmV5LWRvbnQtdGFrZS10aGUtbW9uZXkv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">paid so handsomely by Nero</a>, was so powerful as a result of his position as Nero’s teacher and advisor, that it became hard for him to see what was there. It was a classic case of that problem outlined by Upton Sinclair many centuries later: It’s very hard to get someone to see something that their salary (or status or identity) depends on them not seeing.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We all have blindspots like this. Some are more forgivable than others (Marcus Aurelius with his stepbrother Lucius Verus…ahem and recent presidents and their children). The reason we have trouble <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/58hvh7hm5gzem5f6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS90aGlzLWlzLXRoZS1zZWNyZXQv&source=gmail&ust=1700452062256000&usg=AOvVaw0oEsTTXTF-tTlJ0Q1ToxrI" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/58hvh7hm5gzem5f6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS90aGlzLWlzLXRoZS1zZWNyZXQv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">seeing what is so obvious</a> to everyone isn’t just that we’re close to these people, it’s that we don’t want to admit we’re wrong. We don’t want to hear what we’re being told because it would mean changing our minds, having tough conversations, making painful decisions.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Yet even Marcus Aurelius would write in <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/25h2hoh273e522t3/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700452062256000&usg=AOvVaw05ogcm2lMQgv-O9hNkvvt9" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/25h2hoh273e522t3/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>Meditations</em></a> that false friends should be avoided at all costs. He spoke of needing to understand the <em>true</em> character of those we’re dealing with. This doesn’t mean we have to cut everyone who isn’t perfect out of our lives. It doesn’t mean <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/qvh8h7hr8d0xrdfl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zdG9pYy1yZXNwb25zZS1iZXRyYXlhbC8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700452062256000&usg=AOvVaw1LGPXzErVvbKUBhXOZ7oWw" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/zluwok93onanh40zl0qsxi2d2l500/qvh8h7hr8d0xrdfl/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9zdG9pYy1yZXNwb25zZS1iZXRyYXlhbC8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">we have to betray them</a> (although in Seneca’s case, Nero did need to be conspired against and eventually Seneca did). But it does mean we can’t be naive. We can’t deny what is obviously true…or that will cause us and others we love even more trouble. It’s only delaying the inevitable, only deferring the painful choices (or consequences) we’ll inevitably face.</span></p><div style="padding: 0px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 800px;"><div style="max-width: 800px;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" data-pin-me-only="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEisUR1U6qd404dQj6RV10Eh-7FaWYluut0eNS1UtoscDhCM_95R2OdaWGe2xVYk4_Ni6tNzImiT45Y451YlPo9nYI2bGomjHQOtyRaRujR0RmGVaX21NvUMObwJgk-cnqnmTv-WvaLrkv5EkM1z3UpO4YWwUT6NgHKbz-1TbEb0Tz9885nb7iU=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></div></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Oscar Wilde was the victim of a terrible tragedy and a terrible injustice. At the height of his artistic powers, he was thrown in jail–an awful prison which contained the germs that later killed him. It was intolerance and tyranny, plain and simple. Everything he cared about was taken from him.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">His family. His freedom. His work.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">As he sat in that dark cell, rotting, festering, angry, he had a kind of slow but life-changing spiritual awakening. Coming out of his resentments and fear and despair, gifted with some paper by a sympathetic politician, he decided that his position would, “force on me the necessity of again asserting myself as an artist, and as soon as I possibly can. If I can produce even one more beautiful work of art I shall be able to rob malice of its venom and cowardice of its sneer and to pluck out the tongue of scorn by the roots.”</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">As it happens, that very sentence was part of that beautiful work, a fascinating and brilliant book called<em> </em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/dpheh0h0q5led8um/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9kZS1wcm9mdW5kaXMtYW5kLW90aGVyLXByaXNvbi13cml0aW5ncz9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD00YjYzMDhlOTgmX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700452061385000&usg=AOvVaw1ndX8YkK6P5VHOvtnD3wr4" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/dpheh0h0q5led8um/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9kZS1wcm9mdW5kaXMtYW5kLW90aGVyLXByaXNvbi13cml0aW5ncz9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD00YjYzMDhlOTgmX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>De Profundis</em></a> (which is full of Stoic themes). He was taking the same path that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/7qh7h8ho0zr9d3hz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93YXIxMD9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD1iYzdiMGIzMjUmX3NzPXI%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700452061385000&usg=AOvVaw30nR2ausb3WUDNEf9cmscx" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/7qh7h8ho0zr9d3hz/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy93YXIxMD9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD1iYzdiMGIzMjUmX3NzPXI=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">Admiral James Stockdale outlines</a> in his famous Stoic paradox–that he had to unflinchingly accept the reality of his situation while simultaneously asserting, “I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.”</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Neither Wilde or Stockdale deserved what happened to them, just as most of us don’t deserve <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/p8heh9hz9xn4r6tq/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS8yMC1zdG9pYy1hZHZlcnNpdHktcXVvdGVzLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700452061385000&usg=AOvVaw3UeNS0NRfQGzHK9IBVG6nf" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/p8heh9hz9xn4r6tq/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS8yMC1zdG9pYy1hZHZlcnNpdHktcXVvdGVzLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">the misfortune we find ourselves in</a>. Yet we have the power, as they had the power, to make good of it, to rob adversity of his malice and venom. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/58hvh7hm57rg3ri6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1hSmRKS28xRjBfSSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700452061385000&usg=AOvVaw3FxKWbo4rmr3sqtSsH-zN4" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/58hvh7hm57rg3ri6/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1hSmRKS28xRjBfSSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">This is what Marcus did during the Antonine Plague</a>, what Seneca did during exile, and how Epictetus was able to rise from slavery and disability. If they can pluck out the tongue of scorn in far worse situations than us, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/9qhzhnhpg9od47t9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS90aGlzLWlzLW1ha2luZy15b3Utd2hvLXlvdS1hcmUv&source=gmail&ust=1700452061385000&usg=AOvVaw04Vhs7I-EJCrZ-79SeDskp" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/9qhzhnhpg9od47t9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS90aGlzLWlzLW1ha2luZy15b3Utd2hvLXlvdS1hcmUv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">then certainly we can</a>. We need to channel this energy, assert ourselves as artists–in whatever it is that we do–and create just one beautiful thing out of this moment.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Or better, many beautiful things.</span></p><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/wnh2hghwrgeqn4i7/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1LY015dkdoOG0xUSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM%3D&source=gmail&ust=1700452061385000&usg=AOvVaw3HP8BiIexWg_ksDdAFm5lY" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hpmpwzmtmi7p75022/wnh2hghwrgeqn4i7/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cueW91dHViZS5jb20vd2F0Y2g_dj1LY015dkdoOG0xUSZhYl9jaGFubmVsPURhaWx5U3RvaWM=" style="border: 0px; color: #0875c1; display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 480px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 480px;" target="_blank"><img alt="video preview" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiATW_oOA3pK9bO8D_hYhe4I06ERDJZHT3BF-Rzr3vDq5pQQjLjP7YmDL86TpueL180DXLYsdorE77lUZYRGFyi6QnslBTC0CyB4VyD_2e5AsR32gReJml9SIk82IK6i_iJSOoDt4fIv1xMY1ZqUG3tZM7Vigm2rVJH0ioO8WdGbw8bk1adUt6MjjoBnmJKt3zwLv5MGp6XnzLqgloCZ_KfA8ftSNrpzelQLG8d7MpU-At7PtwLkxUbhBa18Lib1dOJIj4f6V2iIQCNRQyvKuM0Xt0xEh_opw3eI-IUdDsMWbsB_9AdH56FlmuAgvtniJ9hZCodfkbejV4dImE4_SMLyzAjbT5cMgBsXw=s0-d-e1-ft&accent=%23ffffff&thumbnailof=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKcMyvGh8m1Q%26ab_channel%3DDailyStoic&width=480&height=270&fit=contain" style="border-radius: 4px; 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font-size: xx-large;"> In honor of Veterans Day 2023 here in the United States and as The United Kingdom and Commonwealth remember the fallen on Remembrance Day, we present this throughout all our properties as we honor all the fallen: </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnDJKDSZ7FVBqkQoa8z4KuhOrua5E8ws9COd72dYGfpyuEs42eAw7Y4SyvpQJCFfTBQTX8Sq4Vzkl99zNENIgHsu40H-wADOutPNaEhBHHEC7HrJjPtzZgeuBiiMyRzDjV4Jqrz6EX7Rq9prAOg9YN4HKGj5aXJ3XE05Y1gCwCkK-kZfvUUY152G5gyg/s474/IMG_8680.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="474" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnDJKDSZ7FVBqkQoa8z4KuhOrua5E8ws9COd72dYGfpyuEs42eAw7Y4SyvpQJCFfTBQTX8Sq4Vzkl99zNENIgHsu40H-wADOutPNaEhBHHEC7HrJjPtzZgeuBiiMyRzDjV4Jqrz6EX7Rq9prAOg9YN4HKGj5aXJ3XE05Y1gCwCkK-kZfvUUY152G5gyg/s320/IMG_8680.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="x_elementToProof" style="border: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="center" class="x_MsoNormal" style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 43.55pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;"><span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: #0a2458; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 33pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.2pt; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Proclamation on Veterans Day, 2023 </span></p><p style="background: white; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 21.1pt; margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="border: 0px; color: #0a2458; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This Veterans Day, we honor the generations of women and men who have served and sacrificed — not for a person, a place, or a President — but for an idea unlike any other: the idea of the United States of America. For nearly 250 years, our veterans have defended the values that make us strong so that our Nation could stand as a citadel of liberty, a beacon of freedom, and a wellspring of possibilities. <br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> Today, I am thinking of all our Nation’s veterans, who put their lives on the line to protect our democracy, values, and freedom around the world. We honor our wounded warriors, so many of whom the First Lady and I have met over the years, who are bound by a common sense of duty, courage, and optimism, and we remember those who are still missing in action or prisoners of war and renew my pledge to bring them home. Our military families, caregivers, and survivors also answer the call to serve. I remember so clearly the pride I felt in our son Beau during his service in Iraq as well as those mornings I saw the First Lady saying a prayer for his safe return. Our veterans and their families give so much to our Nation, and we owe them a debt we can never fully repay.<br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> As a Nation, we have many obligations, but we only have one truly sacred obligation: to prepare and equip the brave women and men we send into harm’s way and to care for them and their loved ones when they return home. Since the beginning of my Administration, we have worked to make good on that promise, passing nearly 30 bipartisan laws to support our veterans and service members and their families, caregivers, and survivors. That includes the PACT Act — the most significant effort in our Nation’s history to help millions of veterans exposed to toxic substances during their military service. Since I signed the PACT Act into law last year, more than 478,000 veterans and survivors are already receiving benefits — ensuring that veterans exposed to burn pits and other harmful substances and their loved ones get access to the care and support they need. <br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> My Administration is also committed to ending veteran suicide and homelessness and ensuring that our veterans have the resources they need to live full lives and thrive in their communities. We released a national strategy to reduce military and veteran suicide by improving lethal means safety and enhancing crisis care as well as by addressing the economic, legal, and mental health issues that impact veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs is also funding community-led suicide prevention programs, which help connect veterans and their families to needed services. Every veteran deserves a roof over their head, which is why we have taken bold actions to end veteran homelessness, permanently housing more than 40,000 veterans last year and investing $1 billion to provide supportive services to help homeless and at-risk veterans and their families. My Budget also proposes tripling the number of rental-assistance vouchers for extremely low-income veterans to prevent homelessness. Further, we have taken steps to improve the economic security of veterans and their families by expanding job training programs for transitioning veterans and their spouses and issuing rules to protect them from predatory educational institutions. We are also working to ensure every veteran has access to the benefits and services they have earned.<br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> Earlier this year, I signed an Executive Order directing more than 50 actions to improve access to child care and long-term care for Americans, including military and veteran families, and to support family caregivers, especially those who care for our veterans. Recognizing the talents and contributions of veteran and military spouses, caregivers, and survivors to our workforce, I signed an Executive Order establishing the most comprehensive set of administrative actions in our Nation’s history to support their economic security — increasing training and employment opportunities for military spouses in the workforce throughout the transition to veteran spouses status and encouraging all Federal agencies to do more to retain military and veteran spouses through flexible policies. The First Lady’s Joining Forces initiative is further supporting military and veteran families, caregivers, and survivors by improving economic opportunities and expanding resources to promote health and well-being for this community.<br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> As we mark the 50th anniversary of an all-volunteer force and the 75th anniversary of the full integration of women in the Armed Forces and the desegregation of the troops, my Administration reaffirms our commitment to supporting everyone who serves in our Armed Forces. We have taken steps to ensure that the more than 918,000 women veterans enrolled in the Department of Veterans Affairs health care have equitable access to benefits and health services, in part by expanding access to reproductive health care. We have worked to proactively review the military records of veterans discharged under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and to modernize the process of upgrading discharges to help all veterans access their earned benefits. We will continue to support our LGBTQI+ veterans and veterans of color who have made innumerable contributions to our Nation and have truly made our military stronger, tougher, and more capable.<br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> This Veterans Day, may we honor the incredible faith that our veterans hold, not just in our country but in all of us. They are the solid-steel backbone of our Nation, and we must endeavor to continue being worthy of their sacrifices by working toward a more perfect Union and protecting the freedoms that they have fought to defend.<br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> In respect and recognition of the contributions our veterans and their families, caregivers, and survivors have made to the cause of peace and freedom around the world, the Congress has provided (5 U.S.C. 6103(a)) that November 11 of each year shall be set aside as a legal public holiday to honor our Nation’s veterans.<br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim November 11, 2023, as Veterans Day. I encourage all Americans to recognize the valor, courage, and sacrifice of these patriots through appropriate ceremonies and private prayers and by observing two minutes of silence for our Nation’s veterans. I also call upon Federal, State, and local officials to display the flag of the United States of America and to participate in patriotic activities in their communities.<br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /><br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.<br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> <br aria-hidden="true" class="x_ContentPasted0" /> JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR. </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="x_elementToProof" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="x_Signature" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br aria-hidden="true" style="background-color: white; text-align: start;" /></div></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-62666210230215868702023-11-05T00:00:00.001-07:002023-11-05T00:00:00.135-07:00A Milestone <p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;"> This is the 3300th Post here in our Ordinary Faces Property.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Combo; font-size: x-large;">In honor of this milestone, our team chose this courtesy the Daily Stoic as we look forward to the continued privilege to serve:</span></p><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small; padding: 0px !important;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" style="margin: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><figure style="margin: 12px 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 800px;"><div style="max-width: 800px;"><img class="CToWUd a6T" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEisUR1U6qd404dQj6RV10Eh-7FaWYluut0eNS1UtoscDhCM_95R2OdaWGe2xVYk4_Ni6tNzImiT45Y451YlPo9nYI2bGomjHQOtyRaRujR0RmGVaX21NvUMObwJgk-cnqnmTv-WvaLrkv5EkM1z3UpO4YWwUT6NgHKbz-1TbEb0Tz9885nb7iU=s0-d-e1-ft" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0px none; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: auto; line-height: 13px; max-width: 100%; outline: none; width: 800px;" tabindex="0" width="800" /></div></figure></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Marcus Aurelius hated the gladiatorial games. He despised the violence and the pointlessness of it. But it was part of his job to attend them, so he did his best to distract himself with a book–often to the bemusement of the crowd. When he was emperor, he tried to give the gladiators wooden swords so they wouldn’t hurt each other. Seneca found the violence disturbing too, as he was wary of anything the mob loved.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">Yet both Seneca and Marcus Aurelius understood the power of the metaphor–which is why allusions to the games are threaded through their works. They knew that <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp5wr8qami7p2mw22/g3hnh5h3z62836tr/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wZWFjZS8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699241640020000&usg=AOvVaw0LcRlZk60FyJq48D459QwD" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp5wr8qami7p2mw22/g3hnh5h3z62836tr/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wZWFjZS8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">life was a battle</a>. They felt that the philosopher belonged in the arena. They knew that surviving, winning, depended on training and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp5wr8qami7p2mw22/9qhzhnhp2z8vp9a9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9jb3VyYWdlLWlzLXRoZS1tb3N0LWltcG9ydGFudC12aXJ0dWUv&source=gmail&ust=1699241640020000&usg=AOvVaw3Az61PsSKz_gJKc7HhDkBU" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp5wr8qami7p2mw22/9qhzhnhp2z8vp9a9/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9jb3VyYWdlLWlzLXRoZS1tb3N0LWltcG9ydGFudC12aXJ0dWUv" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">courage</a> and tenacity. They didn’t live long enough to read Boswell, but they would have appreciated his description of the mental facilities of his muse and hero Samuel Johnson–what Marcus called <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp5wr8qami7p2mw22/3ohphkh7d4857vfr/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93aGVyZS1pcy15b3VyLWNvbW1hbmQtY2VudGVyLw%3D%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699241640020000&usg=AOvVaw1roMoKoq6IRUYHpSLnV_pL" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp5wr8qami7p2mw22/3ohphkh7d4857vfr/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS93aGVyZS1pcy15b3VyLWNvbW1hbmQtY2VudGVyLw==" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank"><em>the command center</em></a><em>–</em>through the imagery of what Marcus and Seneca saw first hand.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">“His mind resembled a vast amphitheater, the Coliseum at Rome,” Boswell said, “In the center stood his judgment, which, like a mighty gladiator, combated those apprehensions that, like the wild beasts of the arena, were all around in cells, ready to be let out upon him. After a conflict, he drove them back into their dens; but not killing them, they were still assailing him.”</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We don’t have to revel in combat sports to understand that we are in our own desperate fight. We are fighting against false impressions. We’re fighting against <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp5wr8qami7p2mw22/n2hohvh3o64932a6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9ub3Qtbm8tZW1vdGlvbnMtbm8tdXNlbGVzcy1lbW90aW9ucy8%3D&source=gmail&ust=1699241640020000&usg=AOvVaw0RdjHiJU1NIm3uA-XftN8R" href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/e5udl3kzlms7hp5wr8qami7p2mw22/n2hohvh3o64932a6/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9ub3Qtbm8tZW1vdGlvbnMtbm8tdXNlbGVzcy1lbW90aW9ucy8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #0875c1;" target="_blank">destructive emotions</a> like greed and fear and envy and prejudice. We’re fighting against our lower self in order to reach that higher plane, that one worthy of being cheered and celebrated. It’s a fight that happens day in and day out, one that never really ends.</span></p><p style="color: black; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="font-family: Combo;">We’ll never “win” but we can be great in our brief moment in the arena. We can be mighty as we fight back the beasts that are let out upon us.</span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-83819694341199950742023-10-29T13:42:00.003-07:002023-10-29T13:42:14.556-07:00Notations On Our World (Special Sunday Edition): Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover <iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/d6z4H_geX5A?si=EwEuwzlUgu73rCkD" width="480"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7183328.post-78889788456597703542023-10-21T00:00:00.001-07:002023-10-21T00:00:00.129-07:00#OutsiderVibes (W-End Editon): Strategic Air Command<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/MKtEA3b5NJ0?si=EVqV3DnbB-kegc5T" frameborder="0"></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0