The Stoic Inner Strategy

Ep 221 – When Your Actions and Values Don’t Match

• The One and Only Scott Smith • Season 2 • Episode 221

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Inner conflict reveals where alignment has been lost. Scott Smith explores how integrity restores coherence between values and action.

🎙️ Episode Summary

“Let it make no difference to you whether you are cold or warm… if you are doing your duty.” — Marcus Aurelius

Not all leadership tension comes from the outside.

Some of it comes from within—when action and conviction quietly drift apart.

In this episode, Scott Smith names inner conflict as information, not failure. Integrity is not moral perfection. It is coherence. The ability to act as one whole self again.

Stillness doesn’t remove the work.
It restores direction.

🧠 What You’ll Learn Today

  • How inner conflict signals misalignment
  • Why integrity is coherence, not rigidity
  • The cost of divided action
  • How stillness reveals truth
  • Why alignment restores authority

🔍 Tags:
Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius, Integrity, Leadership, Alignment, Judgment, Stillness, Inner Strategy

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