the daily stoic

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March 31st

YOU’RE A PRODUCT OF YOUR TRAINING

“Chasing what can’t be done is madness. But the base person is

unable to do anything else.”

—MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.17

dog that’s allowed to chase cars will chase cars. A child who is never
given any boundaries will become spoiled. An investor without discipline is
not an investor—he’s a gambler. A mind that isn’t in control of itself, that
doesn’t understand its power to regulate itself, will be jerked around by
external events and unquestioned impulses.
That can’t be how you’d like tomorrow to go. So you must be aware of
that. You must put in place training and habits now to replace ignorance and
ill discipline. Only then will you begin to behave and act differently. Only
then will you stop seeking the impossible, the shortsighted, and the
unnecessary.