You Gave Them This For Free?

“Let no one rob me of a single day,” Seneca said, “who is not going to make me an adequate return for such a loss." 🎟️https://www.dailystoiclive.com/DAILY STOIC LIVE https://www.dailystoiclive.com/| Ryan Holiday is coming to a city near you https://www.dailystoiclive.com/! Grab tickets here https://www.dailystoiclive.com/ | https://www.dailystoiclive.com/ 🎙️AD-FREE https://dailystoic.supercast.com/| Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing toThe Daily Stoic Premium https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content:https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ ✉️ FREE STOIC WISDOM https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail | Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email athttps://dailystoic.com/dailyemail -- Stop online threats before they become real-world attacks. Visit ironwall.com/DAILYSTOIC and request a free Risk Assessment to see exactly how exposed your executives are. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy https://acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• 0:00Ryan Holiday?

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• 0:42Ryan Holiday?

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• 1:07Ryan Holiday?

  You gave them this for free? That bad relationship, that gossip and drama, that period you spent anxious and worried? Those needless obligations you weren't strong enough to reject? That job you hated but didn't quit? At the time, it didn't seem like much, but now it's clearer what you paid for them and how little you got in return. In retrospect, it's baffling, it's exasperating. Like Taylor Swift sings about one of her frustrating relationships, "I'm pissed off that you let me give you all that youth for free." "That's what we're giving up," Seneca reminds us, "whenever we say yes to things we should say no to. When we waste our time, we are wasting our lives."

• 1:48Ryan Holiday?

  "Let no one rob me of a single day," he said, "who is not going to make me an adequate return for such a loss." Let the sunk cost of the past stay there. You now have the present and the presence of mind to know what it's worth. Don't give any more of it away for free.

• 2:11Speaker 01

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