We say we want to get better. We say we want to learn about this or that. We say we want to make a change. We say we’ve decided to get serious.
But is this true?
The Stoics had an expression: Acta non verba. Deeds not words.
So it’s ironic that most of us say we want to make these improvements, but we can’t or won’t do the bare minimum.
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And in today's Daily Stoic Journal excerpt reading, Ryan discusses the importance of putting everything to the test in the same way that an assayer would test metals.
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