{"id":1271,"date":"2022-01-20T16:28:49","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/how-to-live.de\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2024-01-15T16:10:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T15:10:25","slug":"seneca-wie-man-mit-jedem-tag-wachsen-kann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/how-to-live.de\/en\/seneca-how-you-can-grow-with-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Seneca on daily growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every night, before we go to sleep, we must ask ourselves: what weakness have I overcome today? What virtue have I acquired?<\/p> - Lucius Annaeus Seneca <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

There is a multitude of quotes and sayings that all have more or less the same quintessence: one should not compare oneself with others, or rather the only person one should compare oneself with is one's past self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seneca wants to tell us with his quotation that the day has been used optimally when one has grown a little bit beyond oneself on this day. When you have faced your fears, when you have changed your character a little in a desirable direction and as far as he.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Of course, you cannot overcome a new weakness or acquire a new virtue every day. However, you can work on yourself every day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, if I already do sports regularly, then if I also do sports today, I have not learned the virtue of discipline. However, I have maintained or improved my discipline by sticking with sports one day longer than I ever have before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same goes for weaknesses. For example, if I am a late riser and I want to work on getting up earlier, then it makes sense up to a certain point. But if I set my alarm clock 5 minutes earlier every day, then after 24 days at the latest it no longer makes sense, because you get up at 3 o'clock in the morning simply to overcome your weakness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beauty of this quote is that it brings with it a practical instruction manual. Every night before you go to sleep, ask yourself what weakness you have overcome today, what virtue you have acquired - or at least which one you have continued to work on or hold on to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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