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What you call a discussion, the Stoics called a contest. (opens the original)
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“If anyone can refute me and show me that I am wrong, I will gladly change. It is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone.” — Marcus Aurelius, MeditationsA man corrects someone at dinner.A small thing. A date, a name, a detail that changes nothing. He supplies the right answer and feels the small satisfaction of having supplied it.He does this often. In conversation he is already forming his rebuttal while the other man is still speaking. He does not leave a point unanswered. He has
He Has Said “Two More Years” Since He Was 52. (opens the original)
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THE SUBMISSION“I’m 58. Engineer, thirty-one years at the same firm. I could retire now.My adviser etc has run it with me six times. I’ve built my own spreadsheet with about forty scenarios. Bad markets, long lives, a crash in year one. Every one comes out fine.My wife retired three years ago. We had plans. I keep saying two more years.I’ve been saying two more years since I was 52.I built another scenario last week.”Gary, 58, Louisville WHAT’S ACTUALLY HAPPENING HERE<
What you call security, the Stoics called a ransom. (opens the original)
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“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.” — Seneca, Letters from a StoicA man builds his safety.The savings, the investments, the cushion that means nothing can touch him. He set a number years ago, and he hit it.He set a new one that evening. And a higher one after that.The fear did not go when the money came. It grew, because now there is more to lose.It is not responsibility.It is a man paying an endless ransom to a kidnapper who will never release him
His Wife’s Message From 4pm Was Still Sitting There. (opens the original)
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Apologies for sending this weeks letter about an hour late. I was out of town.THE SUBMISSION(summarized)“I’m 36. Two nights ago a client emailed at 11pm about something that could have waited until Monday. I replied in under four minutes.Then I noticed the notification underneath it. My wife had texted at 4:12pm asking if I could pick up something on the way home. I never answered. She went herself.I scrolled up. This is not a one-off. It is the shape of my entire phone.I don’t have a story for
What you call politeness, the Stoics called performance. (opens the original)
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“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.” — Marcus Aurelius, MeditationsA man is patient all day.He absorbs the difficult colleague without complaint. He is warm with the stranger, gracious with the client, generous with people who have no claim on him at all.Then he comes home, and within ten minutes his tone has changed. The short answer. The sigh. The irritation at nothing.He calls it decompressing when in reality….It is a man who spends his best self on people who are w
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