Why you should stop giving your mind to other people #shorts

26 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken message (YouTube short) by TJ Walker urging listeners not to surrender their minds to others—especially to people who share unproven, irrational, or 'crazy' ideas. Walker invokes Epictetus to frame the moral inconsistency of protecting one’s body but giving away one’s mind, and urges adopting the 'TJ Walker habit' of mental autonomy.

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Epictetus once pointed out that if someone gave your body to some passerby, you'd be furious. You'd be outraged. And yet, when we give our own minds to people, listen to people who have crazy ideas, dumb ideas, stupid ideas. We do it willingly. We should be just as outraged this time, at ourselves. Stop giving your mind to other people. Especially if they have not proven they are worth it. Please follow the TJ Walker habit.