10 Stoic Choices You Can Make Today (To Get Better)

The Daily Stoic

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🗓️ 24 October 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

On today’s podcast Ryan gives you 10 Stoic inspired choices that you can make today to live a better life.

The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over and what we do not. The same is true for us today. If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier, we will have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realize they are fighting an unwinnable battle.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:11.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday
0:15.3	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics
0:19.2	Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice
0:24.1	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics
0:30.5	We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives
0:40.3	And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things
0:46.9	Have slowed down be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal
0:53.9	And most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
0:59.6	Hey, it's Ryan holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast
1:04.6	We are the product of our choices, right? And I forget who said it, but we make a choice and
1:11.0	Sure enough there we are having to choose again. We are constantly having to choose life is an unending series of
1:18.6	Of choices so in today's episode. I wanted to give you some Stoic choices some things
1:24.0	Stoics try to choose to do choose to think about choose to value that will make you better
1:31.1	Of course at the essence of Stoicism is a choice
1:34.2	Am I going to focus on what I control or what I don't control?
1:37.9	Am I going to focus on what I have influence over or what I do not and in fact
1:42.7	Epictetus says this is the chief task the chief choice in life
1:47.4	Today, we have some choices that I hope you will make choices that I think will make you better choices that will challenge you
1:55.3	These are not always easy choices in fact most choices are hard and at the core of Stoicism is of course another
2:02.8	Choice I talk about this in the the intro to the courage book the choice of Hercules the choice between the easy road and the hard road virtue and
2:10.4	Vice
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