101: The Room Changes When You Do | Built From Within

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The Room Changes When You Do | Built From Within

Your inner work doesn't stay inside. It changes the rooms you're in — and Epictetus makes the case that this is the whole point.

This is episode four of four in the Built From Within series, built entirely around The Art of Living by Epictetus. Four weeks. Four quotes. One arc that moves inward first, then back out.

This week: the ripple. How the gap practice, the attention work, and the internal compass you've been building over the past month shows up — quietly, without announcement — in every room you're in.

Epictetus asks a question that I think is the most important one in the series: How are my thoughts, words, and deeds affecting the people around me?

Not as a performance. As a way of being.

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→ Week 1: The Provocation (Your Mind Is Complicit) — https://www.jeremyajorgensen.com/the-provocation/

→ Week 2: The Attention (What You Feed Grows) — https://www.jeremyajorgensen.com/the-attention/

→ Week 3: The Validation (The Approval Loop) — https://www.jeremyajorgensen.com/the-validation/

→ Week 4: The Ripple (This episode) - https://www.jeremyajorgensen.com/the-ripple/

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The Art of Living by Epictetus - https://geni.us/o1qoNYP

The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander - https://geni.us/10tLn

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