{"id":1798,"date":"2024-03-26T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2024-03-26T15:41:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T22:41:50","slug":"know-the-real-worth-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/03\/26\/know-the-real-worth-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Know the Real Worth of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;&#8230; we sell things of great value for things of very little, and vice versa.&#8221;<\/p><cite>DIOGENES LAERTIUS, <em>LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS<\/em>, 6.2.35b<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything has a particular value.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/03\/05\/everything-has-a-cost\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1669\">Everything has a cost<\/a>.  The secret is in knowing <strong>the real worth of things<\/strong> so that we don&#8217;t overpay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In today&#8217;s entry in The Daily Stoic, the author introduces us to the concept of <em>axia<\/em>, which means &#8220;the true worth of things&#8221;.  The value might be defined in monetary terms \u2014 the cost of physical objects which are meant to impress the neighbors (or yourself), or which give you a false sense of validation or importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large sq_image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-49-1024x762.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-49-1024x762.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-49-300x223.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-49-768x572.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-49.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or the worth might be time-based.  Whenever we devote our attention to a task \u2014 that is its cost.  We need to make sure we&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/12\/10\/trade-your-time-for-full-value\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1196\">trading our time for the full value<\/a> of the object.  Sometimes we give a lot of our precious bandwidth to something that doesn&#8217;t deserve it.  And conversely, we often ignore tasks that are worth more of our time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The key,&#8221; as Ryan Holiday puts it, &#8220;is being aware of the difference.&#8221;  We need to <strong>know the real worth of things<\/strong> so that we pay (in time or worth) an appropriate amount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes we pay more (in time or money) for things that aren&#8217;t worth it.  Other times, we don&#8217;t pay enough.  The key is knowing the difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[313,918,855,600,123,919,613,314,316,124,917,916],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}