Confronting Mental Weakness: The Stoic Approach to Self-Reflection

"We’d like to think that our mind is our friend, but of course it isn’t. The Stoics knew this. The mind wants to jump to conclusions. The mind wants us to get worked up. The mind wants not to be challenged, not to have to admit it was wrong. That’s why they worked so hard to question their assumptions, to build strategies for questioning their own thinking and not being at the mercy of it."

Ryan describes the weakness that you must not fall prey to, in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.

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