[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Perspective]] - People: [[Ryan Holiday]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6L-776f2Jk --- ## Summary - [[This moment is enough]]. Connect yourself to the present. - [[The present is a gift we all receive]]. - Get up early. [[Mornings are opportunities to make a part of the day uniquely yours]]. - Know you have enough. [[Enjoy enough]]. [[Do less, better]]. - Stop rushing. [[We're dying every day. The time that passes belongs to death.]] - Control your desire. [[You are not poor. Poor is a mentality. It's a mentality that very few people recover from. You are broke.|Poor is a mentality]] - Look for beauty in the mundane. - Control your inputs. [[Don't let someone else determine the quality of your day]]. - Make time for peace. Let things happen as they happen. - [[Stillness provides the stage for your subconscious, if it chooses to speak. In the meantime, simply enjoy the show that is life itself.]] ## Notes - [[This moment is enough]]. - "The secret to Zen is to be present". - Stillness is in the present moment of experiencing life. - Be cautious when curiosity of the future takes you away from the experience of the present. - To be bored is to be ungrateful. - Connect yourself to the President. ### Get up early - Get up early even when you don't want to. - "[[Under the blankets is no way to fame]]" - Dante. - "[[Owning the morning is a critical part of owning the day.]]" - [[Mornings are opportunities to make a part of the day uniquely yours]]. ### Know you have enough - Discover peace and knowing that you have enough of something. - [[Having enough isn't about complacency. It's about contentment.]] - Not needing to do everything allows you to [[Do less, better]]. - Learn to love the process. The process of growth, the process of self, the process of life. - [[Enjoy enough]]. - To experience stillness in the world, you must first have stillness in the self. [[Separate yourself from the distractions of the matterless and embrace the quiet]]. ### Stop rushing - To hurry is to get to the end faster. - To hurry is to miss the now. - "[[We're dying every day. The time that passes belongs to death.]]" ### Control your desires - "Poverty is is desiring that you are anything but what you are at this very instant" - [[You are not poor. Poor is a mentality. It's a mentality that very few people recover from. You are broke.]] ### Be present - There are only so many things that we can do in a day - and that's okay. - [[Think of many things; do only one]]. - [[Dissolve anxiety through acceptance]], rather than to project it. Avoid contributing to the chaos of the world. ### Look for beauty in the mundane - To see beauty in life is to experience it. - [[You can be better someday, but who you are now is more than enough.]] - [[Forget the pettiness of life by taking a step back and marveling at the bigness of it all]]. - The mundane isn't something to avoid. It is what life is made of. - To be bored of the mundane is to not see the beauty of life. ### Control your inputs - "Don't make yourself an item on someone else's to do list." - [[Don't let someone else determine the quality of your day]]. ### Make time for peace - Inspiration may arise in stillness. However, don't make the mistake in chasing for it. - [[Stillness provides the stage for your subconscious, if it chooses to speak. In the meantime, simply enjoy the show that is life itself.]] - Give the mind over to relaxation. - Stillness is where life changing breakthroughs shatter loudest. ## Original ![[8 ways stoicism will help you find stillness-1.jpg]] ![[8 ways stoicism will help you find stillness-2.jpg]] ![[8 ways stoicism will help you find stillness-3.jpg]]