Know thyself

If there was all the self-help books in the world, it's two principles.

Know thyself and to thine own self be true.

That's it.

I know myself.

The Oracle of Delphi, the original, the OG guru.

It was a woman and she issued a warning, not an affirmation.

Know thyself.

You better know yourself or else someone else is going to know you better and guess who's using who then.

Ähm, aber diese Auseinandersetzung damit hat mir geholfen, meine, meine Kraft und meine Energie im Leben zu finden.

Das erklärt den Leitspruch auf deinem LinkedIn-Profil: „Gnothi seauton“, die An-, Inschrift über dem Orakel von Delphi.

Das, ich fand den Spruch so cool.

Ähm, meine, viele Leute machen so Sprüche, weil sie sie cool finden und damit angeben wollen und klugscheißen wollen.

If that's what's important.

Again, I think so much of investing is know thyself, right? Again, maybe we dropped that phrase a few times, but it's critical that whatever you're going to invest in, you know, you're going to have the patience and resilience to stay with it and let it do what it's intended to do.

maybe it's establishing your hierarchy of needs, what's most important to me.

If this part of my portfolio just has to generate returns, then you don't want to be that FOMO investor that says, well, I did something that's got more in line with my values, but it's underperforming something that's not aligned with my values.

Yeah, and be similar.

We're all at the core pleasure-seeking, right? And so that's where you have to think that these returns come from.

So, again, I would go into know thyself.

Understand your particular hierarchy of needs.

And before I jump into my own story, I want to tell you one more parable.

Because the thinking mind has a way of deciding what our lives are supposed to look like.

It wants to number and order every pair in the garden.

And when something disrupts that order, it's very quick to decide what that disruption means.

The lesson isn't that losing the horse was good or that the broken leg was good.

It's that we are almost never in a position to know what a single event will ultimately mean.

Hard things cause real pain, but we often add another layer of suffering when we decide too quickly what those events mean and when we cling to the numbered pear garden we had arranged in our minds.

Integration allows each function to do its part.

I mean, I might as well have burned that amount of cash in a bonfire.

And The lesson really was like, know thyself.

Know what I need, not what somebody else thinks I need or is going to be good for me at this moment in time in my business.

But to be able to really be reflective and decisive and say and have that discernment to say yes or no.

And then that's like, how are we going to know how to do that in the future if we don't have that experience?

Exactly right.

And I think, too, that also leads to when you were talking about know thyself.

Well, then what actually needs to happen in order to do that? And another another pattern that I see come up a lot with women who are growing their authority, growing their leadership, growing their influence is they really don't like.

So we're not going to talk about them.

And of course, we have to remember, most important of all, the sign over her door that she points out to Neo that says, you know, it's in Latin, but it means know thyself.

The magic words of the high priestess.

Enough said.

And look, I'm a fan of just really simple stuff, past, present, future, or like the Celtic cross, just the center cross position.

Like I love when spreads are more general, but I have to say I am getting a lot out of building these sort of specific spreads based off of the archetypes and themes of the cards.

Like every time I do a reading here on the podcast, I'm always like really delighted by whatever came through and and um and find it quite profound so let me know how this spread goes for you the high priestess spread or maybe we'll call it the know thyself spread in honor of the matrix one of my favorite movies of all time That's it for this week.

I think this week's a little bit of a longer episode.

So what's our edge? We've done a few specials on...

We've written a blog on Know Thyself.

We've done a special on understanding your personality.

We've got an Enneagram personality assessment on the website just to help people understand what type of investor that they are.

So of the translations I read, I saw temperance and I saw self-control, but you'll, you'll also see moderation.

You'll see, um, let me see what else, like temp, um, prudence discretion these are other terms that show up for so for sine but what it really boils down to is the the oracle of delphi and if you recall that there there's some sayings that are written at the oracle of delphi and two of those sayings are know yourself and nothing in excess and And one of the introductions I read about this particular dialogue, it said, Carminities, the dialogue, is about sophrosyne, but sophrosyne is the spirit behind those ideas, those statements of know yourself and nothing in excess.

And so you can see where self-control would come and be a part of that and that kind of thing.

And so that's what we're looking at here.

Since I'd almost be prepared... to say that knowing oneself is exactly what self-control is.

I agree with whoever it was who dedicated the inscription to that effect at Delphi.

So here we get into the Oracle of Delphi, which I mentioned at the beginning of know yourself and nothing in excess.

So I'm going to skip ahead just a little bit.