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#123 William Irvine: How To Live a Stoic Life

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Don't Take the Short Cut

"There are times when i do quit. There are times whenand i'm not proud of it when it happens, but ought to wrestle with them." "Self discipline means what it means you are controlling the one life that you have to live" 'If you're not controlling that life, who or what is? And why would you allow something else to control the one life you have toLive?''I've found through trial and air that it's much better for me, if i'm going to give up, to actually walk the full ten than it would be to take the short cut'

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