How To Become Rich | Watch Over Your Perceptions

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<p>The writers Kurt Vonnegut (<a href="https://geni.us/gYIX" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Slaughterhouse Five</em></a>) and Joseph Heller (<a href="https://geni.us/J3zO" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Catch-22</em></a>) were at a glamorous party outside New York City. Standing in the palatial second home of the billionaire host, Vonnegut began to needle his friend. He described the exchange in a poem published in the <em>New Yorker</em> in 2005:</p><p><em>I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel Catch-22 has earned in its entire history?”</em></p><p><em>And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”</em></p><p><em>And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”</em></p><p><em>And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”</em></p><p>--</p><p>And today's Daily Stoic Journal reading, Ryan discusses what the Stoics teach us about keeping constant watch over the flood of perceptions that fill our minds.</p><p>🎧 Listen to Ryan's <a href="https://dailystoic.com/molly-bloom-on-the-reality-of-being-rich-and-powerful/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">interview with Molly Bloom</a></p><p>✉️&nbsp;Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TikTok</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>