Working Hard or Hardly Working? (Day 150)

5/30/2019

Ever have that “spinning my wheels” feeling? That feeling like you’re workin’ your ass off in one spot, not getting anywhere… and that sounds like a great metaphor for digging ourselves deeper and deeper into a hole.

Epictetus says that unless we know what someone is working towards, or why they’re doing it (and they’re virtuous reasons), the classification of “industriousness” can’t truly be used (Discourses, 4.4.41; 43).

Just being “busy” doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re doing good, or that you’re producing meaningful results. It just means you’re busy.

Could be that we’re just looking like we’re doing something…

… which amounts to nothing.

(See y’all tomorrow)

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Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind.
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Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove. He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace.

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