Old Wisdom to Think About
Welcome to the one day at a time podcast where we forget about yesterday. We don't worry about tomorrow. It's what are we going to do today? This all matters because you've only ever had or will ever have the fantastic twenty four hours a day you're about to embark on. So hopefully this episode is going to give you some daily dose of wisdom that you can take action on today to improve your life.
Speaker 1:And remember, all it takes is one day at a time. Oh my god, who's melting with me? This weather, I know it's very British, but all my days in a way con. I can't think. I've been struggling to think.
Speaker 1:There's heat, how pathetic is that? Bit hot, can't even think. But we can't complain because when it's cold we complain, when it rains we complains. We have to accept, we might all have to get some air con mummy. I know it's expensive though, but maybe that is the option to have like a business that does like portable air con for like four days of the year just so we can get through it.
Speaker 1:So if anyone there is looking for a business opportunity, portable air con for Lumb, please thank you. But today I'm gonna go through, so I've been reading this book called a world a book of worldly wisdom. I'm just gonna share with some of my favorite ones from it. It is written in sometimes difficult English because it's been translated and apparently the translation isn't exact. There've been people have been trying for a long time to get it right.
Speaker 1:So, I have to look up many words and I'll try and change them in but maybe you know most of you maybe are brought up in England and have got a better English vocabulary than myself but let's get to it. These are maxims so advice on how to live. Okay, in prosperity prepare for adversity. It is both wiser and easier to collect winter stores in the summer. In prosperity favours are cheap and friends are many.
Speaker 1:'Tis well therefore to keep them for more unlucky days for adversity costs dear and has no helpers. Retain a store of friendly and obligated persons. The day may come when their price will go up. Low minds never have friends. In luck they will not recognize them.
Speaker 1:In misfortune they will not be recognized by them. Boom. That's great because guess what we've been doing in our we've been building a community up haven't we? So in our prosperity times and many of you been in the Octagon and through challenges we've built up a community of people, we've done it, there's you know favors that everywhere else in the help, we've got many friends right and now when we go to some of our unlucky days maybe a little slumps like you know we spoke Suzanne has talked about this with the economic boom and bust. You kind of go down into a little recession.
Speaker 1:Well, you put the work in into a community and you've got to support there when you're in your recession. You've got people recognising that, look, it's a journey, it's gonna be up and down. And we are lucky enough as a community with Turtle to realize how lucky we are to have all of each other to to spend time with Zoom's and out be there for each other. Right? So we're doing this perfectly.
Speaker 1:So well done, everyone. But I thought that was a perfect little explanation. And also don't throw away your friends when things are going well, you know, you can look at it in terms of relationships and stuff. Some guys or girls get into relationships and then throw they don't bother with anyone. And then when they get dumped, they expect all their friends to come back into their life.
Speaker 1:Well, guess what? That doesn't always work out, and, it's quite sad. Anyway, next one, recognize unlucky days. They exist. Nothing goes well on them even though the game may be changed and the ill luck remains.
Speaker 1:Two tries should be enough to tell if one is in luck today or not. Everything is in the process of change even the mind and no one is always wise. Chance has something to say even her to write a good letter. All perfection turns out on the time, even beauty has its hours, not in the morning. Even wisdom fails at times by doing too much or too little.
Speaker 1:Right? Yes. To turn out well, a thing must be done on its own day. This is why with some everything turns out ill, with others all goes well even with less trouble. They find everything ready, their wit prompt, their presiding genius, favourable, their lucky stars in the ascendant.
Speaker 1:At such times, one must seize the occasion and not throw away the slightest chance. But a shrewd person will not decide on the day's luck by a single piece of good or bad fortune. For the one may be only a lucky chance and the other only a slight annoyance. We all get bad days. That's basically saying.
Speaker 1:If I were to slither that down to a few sentences, we all get bad days, even the wisest of the wise. Even when we think we've we've perfected some sort of lifestyle. We all get unlucky lucky days. We don't know why it happens. It just doesn't.
Speaker 1:When we get lucky days, we just think, better maybe try the lottery today. Boom. Share with me your money, guys. Okay. Put up with fools.
Speaker 1:The wise are always impatient for he or she that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly. Much knowledge is difficult to satisfying. The first great rule of life according to Epictetus is to put up with things he makes that the mighty of wisdom, the mighty of wisdom, the pinnacle of wisdom. To put up with all the varieties of folly would need much patience, we often have to put up with most of those on whom we most depend, a useful lesson in self control. Out of patience comes fourth peace, the priceless boon, which is the happiness of life.
Speaker 1:That's it. That's very important. Like, many why do we get so annoyed every day when we meet people who annoy us or, like, say stupid things? That's, like actually definitely what's gonna happen. You're gonna be greeted with that every single day of your life.
Speaker 1:So we must take this piece of wisdom and say we're gonna put up with fools and all that impact us and sway our passions as they say back in the day, but our emotions every day. Next one guys, I hope you're enjoying these as much as I love reading them. I'm like shit that's good. That's for the turtle community. Alright then, do not live in a hurry.
Speaker 1:To know how to separate things is to know how to enjoy them. Many finish their fortune sooner than their life. They run through pleasures without enjoying them and would like to go back when they find they have over leaped the mark. Oh my God, if this guy was alive today, oh, think he'd have a meltdown wouldn't he? Imagine if he saw Instagram and all his stuff running up to the top of the hill to take a picture of Instagram saying you hiked, so I run back down and then at the end of the day go back.
Speaker 1:Do we do we hike today? Yeah. We did. We went up. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Did it for the grand made. Went straight back down, didn't really take a chance to soak it all in. Honestly, this guy would combust self combust and blow up. Yeah, I don't think he'd handle it. So this is a human truth, right?
Speaker 1:No matter what it's just been accelerated now with the technology. Pastillions of life, they increase the ordinary pace of life by the hurry of their own calling. They devour more in one day than they can digest in a whole lifetime. They live in advance of pleasures, eat up the years beforehand, and by their hurry, get through everything too soon. You know, people like travel the world to 17, 18, guys, come on.
Speaker 1:Plenty of time. Even in the search for knowledge there should be moderation lest we learn the things better left unknown. We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret. Enjoy the sun every single moment.
Speaker 1:Trust your heart, especially when it has been proved. Never deny your hearing, it is a kind of house oracle that often foretells the most important. Many have perished because they fear their own heart but of what use is it to fear it without finding a better remedy? Many are endowed by nature with a heart so true that it is always warns them of misfortune and wards off its effects. It is unwise to seek evils unless you seek to conquer them.
Speaker 1:You listen to your gut, It's been a thing in human knowledge and evolution since God knows when. Few more. Hope you're enjoying them. Hope you're not melting away. Hope you can think like I can't.
Speaker 1:A grain of boldness in everything. 'Tis an important piece of prudence. I think prudence means cautiousness. 'Tis an important piece of cautiousness. You must moderate your opinion of others so that you may not think so high of them as to fear them.
Speaker 1:Oh, God, this guy way beyond his time, hasn't seen celebrity culture yet. The imagination should never yield to the heart. Many appear great till you know them personally, and then dealing with them does more to disillusionize than to raise esteem. No one oversteps the narrow bounds of humanity all have their weaknesses either in heart or head. Dignity gives apparent authority which is rarely accompanied by personal power for fortune often redresses the height of office by the inferiority of the holder.
Speaker 1:The imagination always jumps too soon and paints things in brighter colors than the real. It thinks things are not as they are but as it wishes them to be. Attentive experience disillusioned in the past soon corrects all that. Yet if wisdom should not be tumours, neither should folly be rash. And if self reliance helps the ignorant, how much much more the brave and wise?
Speaker 1:I love that one. I love it. We do that all the time. Don't we? We in our mind, we we think things are better than they are, worse than they are.
Speaker 1:Imagine you know, Seneca said, we often we suffer more in imagination than reality just this is a human nature thing it's been here for thousands of years let's take note of this if people have been speaking about this for centuries. We suffer more in imagination than reality Most of the time. Okay, a few more. Do not hold your views too firmly. Every fool is fully convinced and everyone fully persuaded is a fool.
Speaker 1:The more erroneous his judgment, the more firmly he holds it. Even in cases of obvious certainty, it is fine to yield our reasons for holding the view cannot escape notice or courtesy in yielding must be the more recognized. Our obstinate obstinacy obstinacy. This is what mean with these words. Our obstinacy loses more than our victory yields.
Speaker 1:That is not the champion truth but rather rudeness. There'd be some heads of iron most difficult to turn, add caprice to obstinacy and summit is a weariness fool. Steadfastness should be for the will not for the mind. Yet there are exceptions where one would fail twice owning oneself both in judgment and in execution of it. Okay, so I'm grasping from that is only if you're fully convinced all the time with everyone here, you're obviously going to go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth and you're just going to be in a state of chaos in essence, you're to be in chaos.
Speaker 1:And you want to be flexible with your opinions, especially in when it comes to nutrition and science and when you merge self knowledge with research, you know, been a new study that came out the other day, this looked at all the studies going back to 1921 about the keto diet and if it's superior for fat loss and it's not, right. So the keto people now who are claiming that it's better for fat loss, the ones who hold those views very firmly, and they go against science, but they're using the science they think is working for keto. That's just a very, very bad judgment, but they shouldn't be flexible and go do know what, Keto's better for me. I prefer low carb. I I I my cravings go low carb, la la la.
Speaker 1:Fair enough. But don't be too convinced by every single thing. Always have a kind of a balanced view. Never marry to one idea. Never do it.
Speaker 1:Nothing is certain, not even science. Science is mainly theories, guys, most of the time. There's obviously some laws that we believe are laws and they do works right now but anything could change. Scientists are always trying to disprove themselves which is why science is in a sense reliable in that way because we're always out to disprove things to see if it's true. Okay.
Speaker 1:Do not take payment in politeness for it is kind of fraud. Some do not need the herbs of Thessaly for their magic for they can enchant fools by the grace of their salute. Theirs is the bank of elegance, and they pay with a wind of fine words. To promise everything is to promise nothing. Promises are the pitfalls of fools.
Speaker 1:The true courtesy is performance of duty. The spurious and especially the useless is deceit. It is not respect but rather a means to power. Obsolence is paid not to the man but to his means and compliments are offered not to the qualities that are recognised but to the advantages that are desired. Compliments are offered not to the qualities that are recognized but to the advantages that are desired.
Speaker 1:Remember that, remember that. Okay two, many we got left here we're on the last page. I hope you're enjoying them, genuine I love the I love this stuff. This book is I don't know how I found it well Robert Greene but it's very old. I just so I love by reading you find these gems.
Speaker 1:Okay, Have reasonable views of yourself and your affairs especially in the beginning of life. Everyone has an opinion of himself or herself especially those who have least grown for it. Everyone dreams of his good luck and thinks himself a wonder. Hope gives rise to extravagant promises which experience does not fulfill. Such idle imaginations merely serve as wellspring of annoyance when disillusion comes with a true reality.
Speaker 1:The wise man or woman anticipates such errors. He may always hope for the best, but he always expects the worst as so as to receive what comes with equanimity. True, it is wise to aim high so as to hit your mark, but not so high that you miss your mission at the very beginning of life. This correction of the ideas is necessary because before experience becomes expectation is sure to soar too high. The best pan seer against folly is prudence with cautiousness.
Speaker 1:If a man knows the true severe of his activity and position that he can reconcile his ideas with reality. Nice. I like it. That's about the lifestyle in a, know, you wanna lose five stone in, you know, one week, and it's not it's not it's not true. It's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1:£1 a week for a year is £52 if someone wanted to go down that route. There is a lot over time, so that's a great one for people in the start of their health and fitness journey if you're listening. Okay. Know how to appreciate. There is none who cannot teach somebody something and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Speaker 1:So know how to make use of everyone is of useful knowledge. Wise men or women appreciate all humans for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good. Fools depreciate everyone not recognizing the good and selecting the bad, that's very true you gossipers you do this all the time always with the bad in people oh he's doing this and that well you know we've vulgar problems okay vulgar problems. Know the great men of your age or women. Sorry if I'm not always doing men and women but this book is old one.
Speaker 1:Know the great men of your age. They are they are not many. There is one phoenix in the whole world, one great general, one perfect orator, one true philosopher in a century, a really illustrious king in several mediocrities are numerous as they're worthless. Eminent greatness is rare in every respect, since it needs complete perfection and the higher the species, the more difficult it is the highest rank in it. Many have claimed the title great like Caesar and Alexander, but in vain for where without great deeds, the title is mere breath of air.
Speaker 1:There have been very few Senecas and fame records, one Appelles. It's true. Sync out the great people that, of our age generation. You know, you look at men, we got several we look up to. Like, you look Bruce Lee, for example, who's one exceptional human in the martial arts world.
Speaker 1:There'll never be another Bruce Lee, and he was alive or had been live near our existence, which is awesome. What other people do we have? I think look him up and, you know, analyze them, look into them. Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult tasks as if they were easy. In the one case, the confidence may not fall asleep.
Speaker 1:In the other that it may not be dismayed. For the thing to remain undone, nothing more is needed than to think is done. On the other hand, patient industry hard work overcomes impossibilities, great undertakings are not to be brooded over least their difficulty when that seems that when seen causes despair. This is true because easy things are easy, all the easier things we need to do to live a healthy life, they're easy to do, but they're easy not to do as well. Okay?
Speaker 1:So we need to make sure the easy ones are done, we need we need to attempt them. We need to go into them with vigor and the fact they might not be easy. So we go into them with boom, and we get them done. I suppose so ask easy. I'll do it later.
Speaker 1:It doesn't work. I'll tell you it doesn't work. I've tried it. Okay, last one. I swear down last one, longest voice I've done in a while.
Speaker 1:I'm sweating guys so hot. Watch him that acts on second thoughts. It is device of businessmen to put the opponent off his guard before attacking him and thus to conquer by being defeated, they dissemble their desire so as to attain it. They put themselves second so as to come out first in the final spirit. This method rarely fails if it is not noticed, let therefore the attention never sleep when the intention is so wide awake and if the other puts himself second so to hide his plan put yourself first to discover it.
Speaker 1:Cautiousness can discern the artifices which such a man uses and notice the pretext he puts forward to gain his ends. He aims at one thing to get another, then he turns around smartly and fires straight at his target. It is well to know what you grant him and at times it is desirable to give him to understand that you understand. That's a really really good deep life lesson if someone's like yeah you do this we should do this. You're suspicious like why is it gay do if you don't good blah blah blah but then really there's that second order effects that second well he does this then this will happen then that's what I'm going to gain so yeah that's a good defense mechanism way especially in work scenarios and stuff like that You know, maybe, oh, you do, you know, you do the, I'll do the presentation.
Speaker 1:Yeah? And then you do the talk. The talk's not in the big thing. It's just a small talk. Comes to a talk, 10,000 people live.
Speaker 1:You know, you've done the work. You do look silly. I don't don't know. There's loads of examples, but I'll leave you with that, guys. I know it's been a long one.
Speaker 1:I hope you enjoyed it. Hope you're on your walk. Hope you have melted, and I hope you're enjoying the sun. And if you are in Orangetheory, sorry to see you there. But it's some days middle of the week so plenty of time to make up if you have not gone off to the best start but you guess what you got to do you got to focus on today which means focusing one day at a time.
Speaker 1:And that's it thank you for listening to the one day at a time podcast with your host, Galf Lehrer. Hopefully, you understood something I said. I hope that some wisdom kind of distilled through into your mind, and I want you to now action it today. I don't want you to think about tomorrow. I don't want you to think about yesterday.
Speaker 1:I don't want you to think about leaving a review on this podcast. I don't want you to think about going to another website. What I want you to do is as soon as this podcast ends, you will take action and make the most of today. Ground yourself today. Follow the one day at a time philosophy and your life will change.
