What Affects Us All
Sweet Bites for September 13, 2024
Hi all,
Welcome to another edition of Sweet Bites, Mind Candy’s bite-sized newsletter with thought-provoking finds to send you into the weekend with.
Any of the below bites resonate? Hit the reply button and let me know.
🦉 Wisdom
“There is no common benchmark for all the things that people think are good - except for a few, the ones that affect us all. So the goal should be a common one - a civic one. If you direct all your energies toward that, your actions will be consistent. And so will You.”
Marcus Aurelius
Source: Meditations 11.21
🏋🏻 Exercise
Below are five things to keep front of mind when dealing with others, courtesy of the Stoics:
If what we do would injure those around us in our community, then it will ultimately also injure us.
We humans are defined by working with each other. Keep this in mind every morning as you embark upon your day.
We’re quick to judge others yet slow to throw blame upon ourselves. Think to provide grace to others as you would yourself.
We are the people we most hang around with. Make sure it’s curated as you want to live.
People will treat us poorly. This is inevitable. Our goal is to remain harmonious with ourselves and our nature. Only we can let someone else harm us.
📚 This Week’s Monday Meditation
📖 Book I’m Listening To (While Driving)
Why We Drive by
I really enjoyed Crawford’s previous two books, Shop Class as Soulcraft and The World Beyond Your Head. In Why We Drive, he performs a philosophical inquiry into the freedom driving provides us and the risks of losing that freedom.
Like his other work, this one is thought provoking and timely.
(You can also follow him here on Substack if you’re not already).
✏️ This Week’s Wednesday Wisdom
💡 Concept
I’ve been a fan of the Pursuit of Wonder YouTube channel for some time now and always feel they have some thought-provoking videos related to themes I’ve been thinking about.
Below are two of their videos on the perspective others have of you.
🛠️ Tactic
In our Wednesday Wisdom (link above) we dove into Adam Grant’s lesson on feedback versus advice. Below, Grant works through the concept further with Andrew Huberman and they discuss why asking for advice conquers when it comes to feedback discussions.
Until next time,
D.A. DiGerolamo
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