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The Ultimate Stoic Daily Routine

The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

CHAPTER

Taking Souls Is a Mental Game

David Goggins, he wrote a book called Can't Hurt Me. And he has this mental game that he plays called Taking Souls. The aim is that you work so hard and so diligently with so much focus, you take the souls of those who watch because they can't fathom how hard you're willing to work. Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of Rome, was no stranger to working alongside difficult people. He said: "I shall meet with interference in gratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill will, and selfishness"

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