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Sunday, April 13, 2025
BECOMING AN EXPERT IN WHAT MATTERS
“Believe me, it’s better to produce the balance-sheet of your own life than that of the grain market.
”—SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 18.3b
The things that some people manage to be experts in: fantasy sports, celebrity trivia, derivatives and commodities markets, thirteenth-century hygiene habits of the clergy.
We can get very good at what we’re paid to do, or adept at a hobby we wish we could be paid to do. Yet our own lives, habits, and tendencies might be a mystery to us.
Seneca was writing this important reminder to his father-in-law, who, as it happened, was for a time in charge of Rome’s granary . But then his position was revoked for political purposes. Who really cares, Seneca was saying, now you can focus that energy on your inner life.
At the end of your time on this planet, what expertise is going to be more valuable—your understanding of matters of living and dying, or your knowledge of the ’87 Bears? Which will help your children more—your insight into happiness and meaning, or that you followed breaking political news every day for thirty years?
~ Beautiful 😍
~ 🙏 Gratitude
Love Kavi ☀️
Thursday, April 10, 2025
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JUDGMENTS CAUSE DISTURBANCE
“It isn’t events themselves that disturb people, but only their judgments about them.”
—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 5
The samurai swordsman Musashi made a distinction between our “perceiving eye” and our “observing eye.
” The observing eye sees what is. The perceiving eye sees what things supposedly mean. Which one do you think causes us the most anguish?
An event is inanimate. It’s objective. It simply is what it is. That’s what our observing eye sees.
This will ruin me. How could this have happened? Ugh! It’ s so-and-so’ s fault. That’s our perceiving eye at work. Bringing disturbance with it and then blaming it on the event.
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