LETTING GO
In The Daily Stoic, Ryan Holiday shares this profound insight from Epictetus: “The beautiful and good person neither fights with anyone nor, as much as they are able, permits others to fight...this is the meaning of getting an education - learning what is your own affair and what is not. If a person carries themselves so, where is there any room for fighting?” - Epictetus, Discourses, 4.5.1; 7b-8a IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, I’ll share with you some quick thoughts on LETTING GO so we can move forward. Growth requires that we let go of our ego and refrain from romanticizing the past. In an effort to create a brilliant future, be careful to not nourish resentment, for it is a weed that will take over your future garden. Epictetus challenges us to let go of the petulant stranglehold we have on BE RIGHT, by pursuing and cultivating our own affairs. The go-forward will always require that we let go of what might be holding us back. Join me in the conversation!