We Can Get This Expensive Thing Cheap | The Long Way Around
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<p>The rarest thing in the world is wisdom. The most expensive thing in the world is experience. How many truly wise people have you met? How many of them would take the time to download to you all that they know? And of the small amount of wisdom you have accumulated in your life, how much painful trial and error did it take to get it?</p><p>There is really only one shortcut or hack around this. It is the theme we have returned to here many times: <a href="https://dailystoic.com/this-is-the-secret-to-real-wealth/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reading</a>.</p><p>---</p><p>And in today's excerpt from <em>The Daily Stoic</em>, Ryan examines what the Stoics say about choosing to stop taking the long way around to getting what you want, and the benefits that immediately follow.</p><p><em>If you want to become a great reader, the Stoics can help. We built out their best insights into our </em><a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/products/read-to-lead-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Read to Lead: A Daily Stoic Reading Challenge</em></a><em>. Since it first launched in 2019, Read to Lead has been our most popular challenge, taken on by almost ten thousand participants. </em><a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/products/read-to-lead-2022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Sign up today</em></a><em>!</em></p><p>✉️ 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>
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