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Where It Counts
Focusing on the Daily Stoic Meditation for August 20 — Where It Counts, as outlined by Ryan Holiday in the bestseller 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art Of Living.
“Inwardly, we ought to be different in every respect, but our outward dress should blend in with the crowd.”
— SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 5.2
Outward change is insignificant
A lot of people measure their wealth and status based on materialistic possessions; watches, cars and fancy clothing. A great deal of the upper class even compete with each other, trying to demonstrate their growing status through getting the most advanced materialistic goods at the quickest opportunity.
For a society that prizes materialistic items and works towards materialistic goals, you’d think that this type of outward change — demonstrating wealth through changing your outwards appearance — would be the most significant and important type of change, right?
You’d be wrong. Outward change — materialistic items, fancy clothes and cars — is completely insignificant.
Outward change does nothing but show that you have a great deal of wealth, and as incredible as that is, it pales in comparison to the more significant inward change that we should…
