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#541 - Ryan Holiday - Stoicism's Lessons For A Disciplined Life

Modern Wisdom

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Are You Fucking Tired?

I think that caffeine stares people in the face. Most people don't have varying levels of tiredness. They simply have varying levelsof caffeine concentration in their blood. If you need any substance in order to perform, then it stopped conferring a benefit. That's the reason why I did a thousand days sober, even though I wasn't drinking that much. You've got to look at the root cause. Anytime you can't not do a thing, you probably need to stop doing that thing. And this is true for work too. Workaholism, there's the addictions or the compulsions that are not socially acceptable. Heroin. Then there's the ones that are

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