If I see it's really important to me to love with integrity, I'm going to start trying to do that right now. So you end up creating a whole different psychological structure where you gain a sense of reward in the present moment rather than deferring it to the future. And so usually that being terms of character traits that we admire.
This is the audio of an interview I gave recently for Book Club with Kaiden Kelly, talking about How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, Verissimus, and Stoicism, self-help and modern psychology.
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