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to netsuite.com/briefing. Welcome

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to the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Friday,

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we do double duty, not just reading

1:51

our daily meditation, but also reading a

1:53

passage from the Daily Stoic. My book,

1:56

366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance. in

2:00

the Heart of Living, which I wrote

2:02

with my wonderful collaborator, translator, and

2:05

literary agent, Steven Hanselman. So today

2:07

we'll give you a quick meditation

2:09

from the Stoics with some analysis

2:11

from me, and then we'll send

2:13

you out into the world to turn these

2:15

words into works. This

2:28

is a very important decision. Yes,

2:31

Mark has really said you should

2:33

not have to need to retreat, to get away from it

2:35

all. Yes, he said we're supposed

2:38

to find something we love and wear ourselves down doing

2:40

it. Yet he also seemed to

2:42

know that this was unhealthy because in another spot

2:44

in meditations, he says that in

2:46

life you can't be all about business. He

2:48

knew that we needed balance in our lives, outlets

2:51

for our stress and our passions, whether they were

2:53

sports or hunting or journaling or taking walks outdoors.

2:56

Even meditation or reflection was a way to do

2:58

that, a way to reach utter stillness. As

3:01

the actor Alexander Ludwig, who's in Vikings and the

3:03

Hunger Games and Lone Survivor, he talked about this

3:05

recently on the Daily Soap podcast, which you should

3:07

listen to if you haven't heard his episode. He

3:10

said, sometimes the only way to not be all

3:12

about business is to get away from it. Throughout

3:15

the episode, Ludwig talked about how stoicism has

3:17

helped him get and stay sober. In

3:19

addition to stoicism, we have in the program one

3:21

of the best choices he made, he said, was

3:23

leaving Los Angeles and moving to

3:26

Austin, Texas. This is what he said. Lauren

3:28

and I am a wife. We've never been to

3:31

Austin, and I heard such amazing things. Once we

3:33

got here, it was just like, oh

3:36

man, I feel like this is how life was back

3:38

in the 70s. Or

3:41

like back before everything, it's just you

3:43

go to certain places, like even this

3:45

town, I'm just like, are you kidding

3:47

me? Like right over the fucking bookstore?

3:49

Like this is incredible. Like I love

3:51

this. And it's funny, Hollywood, I feel

3:53

like creates the illusion of competition. Sure.

3:56

Like social media. Yes. Whereas in

3:58

reality, it's not as competitive. as

4:00

people make it out to be. There

4:02

are roles that I am so right for

4:05

and there will be a very few other

4:07

guys my age, my type that are right

4:09

for that. In that sense, I guess you

4:11

could say we're competing against each other. But

4:14

in reality, it's not that.

4:16

And I think that there's

4:18

this feeling of totally perpetuated

4:20

by insecurities of

4:22

just I have to one up, I have to act better,

4:25

I have to be better, and it's just, that's

4:28

not the father I wanna be, I wanna be this, the husband I wanna be, this is

4:30

not the man I wanna be. Notice how Ludwood

4:32

kept saying, for me, for some Los Angeles

4:34

is the perfect place. For some

4:36

living in Hollywood and being steeped in the film

4:38

industry is a dream. For some, being

4:40

surrounded by the competition is great fuel. Ideally,

4:43

we could be home anywhere and sometimes in

4:45

our lives, we have to be. But

4:48

finding the place where you're the best version of

4:50

yourself, which brings out stillness

4:53

rather than frenzy, virtue rather than

4:55

vice, it's an

4:57

important decision. That's why I

4:59

live here in Texas. It's not

5:01

a perfect place, I don't love everything about it. But

5:04

it was better for me, healthier for me

5:06

than how I was living in

5:08

California or New York or other places. So

5:12

life's too short to live somewhere you don't want

5:14

to live if you don't have to. So that's

5:16

the message of today's podcast. And do listen to

5:18

Alexander's wonderful episode on the Daily Stove podcast. If

5:21

you missed it, I'll link to it in today's

5:23

show notes. Hey,

5:31

it's Ryan. Today's episode

5:33

is from the

5:36

Daily Stoic, May

5:38

3rd show, not tell

5:41

what you know. I'm holding

5:43

the Daily Stove, 366

5:46

meditations on wisdom, perseverance in the heart of living.

5:49

It's probably annoying that I'm always saying the title, but you

5:51

know what? Every time we post about this book on Instagram,

5:53

people go, oh, what book is that? As

5:56

if it's not the book that kicked off the whole thing. So I

5:58

try to take... the

6:01

humility in remembering that even

6:03

though I have lived and breathed this book and

6:05

these ideas for a very long time

6:07

they're new to many people and maybe they're

6:09

even new to you listening

6:11

right now so you can grab the book audiobook

6:14

physical we have a cool leather edition

6:17

and I read one of

6:20

the entries every Friday as part of the

6:22

podcast and so I'm gonna

6:24

bring you this entry which starts with

6:26

a quote from Epictetus's discourses he

6:29

says those who receive the bear theories

6:31

immediately want to spew them as an

6:33

upset stomach does its food first

6:36

digest your theories and you won't throw them up

6:38

he says otherwise they

6:40

will be raw and spoiled and not nourishing

6:42

after you've digested them show us the

6:45

changes in your reason choices just

6:47

like the soldiers of gymnasts display their

6:49

diet and training and as the

6:51

craft of artisans show what they've

6:54

learned many of the

6:56

stoic aphorisms are simple to remember and even

6:58

sound smart when quoted but

7:00

that's not what philosophy is really about the goal

7:03

is to turn these words into works

7:06

as mousonius rufus that was Epictetus's

7:09

teacher as

7:12

he put it the justification for

7:14

philosopher is when one brings together

7:16

sound teachings sound

7:18

conduct today or any time

7:20

when you catch yourself wanting to condescendingly

7:22

drop some knowledge that you have grabbed

7:25

and asked would I be better saying

7:27

the words or letting my actions and

7:29

choices illustrate that knowledge for

7:32

me so a couple

7:34

thoughts here as we kick this around number

7:36

one I think mousonius rufus was

7:38

a guy who walked the walk in addition

7:40

to talking the talk this is a guy

7:43

first off who teaches at petitus I mean

7:45

he's a philosophy teacher he's known as the

7:47

Roman Socrates a wise powerful important dude and

7:50

here he is teaching a slave no discrimination no

7:53

judgment In fact, he makes

7:55

Epictetus into his greatest student and he also

7:57

teaches women. He was very ahead of his

7:59

time. Rights is fascinating essay

8:01

about how women are just as

8:04

capable of virtue as men and

8:06

should be taught philosophy and excellence.

8:09

But most only roof exiled four

8:11

times three we know for certain

8:13

for with speculate about but he

8:16

deals. With. An.

8:18

Injustice he deals with difficulty does with

8:20

observe it. diversity. All

8:23

these things he talks about, he has

8:25

to put into practice apparatus. of course

8:27

we know this without question, but. What?

8:30

I sort of think about when I.

8:33

Think. About this are actually want to go back to

8:35

send them for second to you know I said that

8:37

The Common: The Roman Socrates. Talked about

8:39

this before, but. The socrates

8:41

isn't write anything down. What?

8:44

He left behind was his example

8:46

right. His example is so compelling

8:48

that it it it makes for

8:50

great writing by Plato. But.

8:52

Socrates is a philosopher because of

8:54

how he lived because of what

8:56

he did. In. The room

8:59

in conversations with people. not what he.

9:01

Not. Poring over his notebooks and writing

9:04

and rewriting and all that. He

9:06

was a philosopher because of how we

9:08

lived. In fact, that great. Still,

9:10

A keto. Gives. Us a

9:12

similar an example apathy. This himself was

9:15

a teacher yes, but he doesn't write

9:17

any books. it's what he told his

9:19

students and how he lived to survive

9:21

down to us into form of lecture

9:24

notes. That's what Marx really sweet and

9:26

that's what we have now in Discourses

9:28

In Encouraging. But I just think about

9:30

this with my own understanding of Stosur

9:33

that so I read Marx Willis in

9:35

my. Late teens eighteen,

9:37

two years old and I

9:39

saw writing about it immediately.

9:41

I was immediately regurgitating it

9:43

out because it was the

9:45

smartest, most interesting, thought provoking,

9:47

challenging eye opening stuff I've

9:49

ever read. But. It took

9:52

many, many years. For. The

9:54

ideas to firmly take whole deputy. The

9:56

sucks that are Seneca talkspace, ideas winning

9:58

from whole the new. Line of

10:01

that the. Brilliance

10:03

of the rioting in the phrasing,

10:05

than that, the humor and this

10:07

wisdom. all that immediately hits the

10:09

i get that immediately but it

10:11

takes a lot hunger for it.

10:15

Warm. It's way into my Dna

10:17

into my life. A dog about this

10:19

in the afterward of the Justice both

10:21

that I'm doing now at about this

10:23

in the in right thing right now

10:25

that the the third book in the

10:27

purchasers the Justice but which is coming

10:29

out in June you can pre order

10:31

that now everywhere. Of course I'm but

10:33

but. I

10:35

don't think I could have written that book. In

10:39

my twenties. I don't even know if I

10:42

could have written it in my early thirties

10:44

and even know if I could have written

10:46

it three years ago, right? It took a

10:48

long time to hard one experiences. It

10:50

took. Them. That's the

10:52

thing about stoicism I guess is one of the

10:55

things the same the afterwards is it's working on

10:57

you as you are working on it. And

10:59

what epic t this is saying and what

11:02

ultimately the stoics want you to understand is

11:04

that steadying stoicism. Talking about stoicism thinking about

11:06

says is reading about says it all. His

11:08

stuff is great. As. Part

11:11

of the. First.

11:14

Episode: Take Time and Patience and

11:16

seventy plenty of work to turn

11:18

those words into works. Which. Is

11:21

the whole point of the floss

11:23

exposed to translate down. To.

11:25

The caught so interesting quotes remarks

11:27

rose about temper or about anxiety.

11:30

Those hit me at twenty. But.

11:32

It took a long time. Me too

11:34

I'm going to should have put it

11:36

took me awhile to actually start applying

11:38

that stuff to start acting differently to

11:41

let it really get into my system

11:43

and so I would just. If

11:45

you feel like you've been standing with Stephen talking about

11:47

and sing Humana for a while and it's just. You.

11:50

Know know there's a difference, yet give

11:52

it time. You know it's working on

11:54

you as you are working on it

11:56

and I'm. At

11:58

the same time I would say cheap. Working on

12:00

it Great. Actually actively try

12:02

to get it. In. There are

12:05

mm When I was doing jiu jitsu,

12:07

I went one time I was working

12:09

out of the Brazilian Jujitsu gym. it's

12:11

it on the New York City and

12:13

the professor says moonlight. You

12:15

Gotta com. Everyday was something specific. You're trying

12:17

to work on. something specific you want to

12:19

take out of it. I. Think

12:21

weekend of stoicism that way to what am

12:24

I trying to get out of this or

12:26

am really working on what am I trying

12:28

to translate into conduct today? It's not trying

12:30

to reinvent myself, change everything. I'm trying to

12:32

really get it into my system. And.

12:34

I want to try to act and behave differently

12:36

as a result of what I'm learning here. That's.

12:39

What we're doing. That's what. Apathy to

12:41

start. A That's today's message. Have a

12:43

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