{"id":631,"date":"2023-09-15T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2023-09-15T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T00:06:44","slug":"patience-young-grasshopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/09\/15\/patience-young-grasshopper\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience, Young Grasshopper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“First practice not letting people who you are \u2014 keep your philosophy to yourself for a bit. In just the manner that fruit is produced \u2014 the seed buried for a season, hidden, growing gradually so it may come to full maturity. But if the grain sprouts before the stalk is fully developed, it will never ripen\u2026 That is the kind of plant you are, displaying fruit too soon, and the winter will kill you.”<\/p>EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES<\/em>, 4.8.35b-37<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Stoicism takes time to develop. It takes practice and consistency for the roots to grow and become strong. So you\u2019ll need to have a little patience, young grasshopper<\/strong>. That\u2019s the wisdom in today\u2019s entry of The Daily Stoic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no need to start speaking loudly of your newfound philosophy right away. Wait until your understanding has grown stronger. Stoicism isn\u2019t for show anyway, it\u2019s a foundation for every moment of your life<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal is not to impress others, but to grow and change yourself, even if no one else notices at all. You do it for<\/em> yourself. And to that end, you need to shelter and protect your first green shoots of stoic philosophy until it\u2019s strong and resilient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last thing you need to do is crow about it, or broadcast it. Who cares if anyone else knows, at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I\u2019m reminded of\u00a0the Reddit thread I found<\/a>\u00a0where the original poster asked for opinions on the cool & complex symbol for stoicism they had created. The first commenter was spot on when they asked: “Why would a stoic need a symbol?” Then they followed up with further explanation, saying “Stoicism shows through action, not words or symbols. A symbol glorifies privilege.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exactly right. We demonstrate our change through our actions<\/em>, not by talking about it. And change takes time, so have patience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Your Stoic practice will take time to grow and develop, so there\u2019s no need to talk loudly about it. Your personal growth will be evident in your actions rather than your words.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634,"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":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[232,290,293,111,200,217,117,237,216,4,84,416],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631"}],"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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}