We Can Get This Expensive Thing Cheap | The Long Way Around

The Daily Stoic

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Author Marcus marks releases meditations 12 1. The long way around this is today's entry in the daily stoic. You could enjoy this very moment all the things you are praying to reach by taking the long way around if you'd stop depriving yourself of them Mark: "You can have what you want right now and More importantly, the thing that you think will bring you something peace contentment happiness whatever"

The rarest thing in the world is wisdom. The most expensive thing in the world is experience. How many truly wise people have you met? How many of them would take the time to download to you all that they know? And of the small amount of wisdom you have accumulated in your life, how much painful trial and error did it take to get it?

There is really only one shortcut or hack around this. It is the theme we have returned to here many times: reading.

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And in today's excerpt from The Daily Stoic, Ryan examines what the Stoics say about choosing to stop taking the long way around to getting what you want, and the benefits that immediately follow.

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