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Actor Alexander Ludwig on How Stoicism Helped Him Get Sober

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Importance of Thinking About Your Goals

I think almost entirely about What do I want to say? What am I trying to do? What's what what is this project like? Am I happy? Did did I win or succeed when I turned it in? Yeah, right and then everything else is extra. Once I got to that place all of a sudden all of the things that I really wanted before that I was aiming for very Specifically, but was not getting they just started happening. Like my books have sold better and I've had more success That is directly correlated with How little I have thought about those things or cared about those things Or aimed for those things.

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