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The Daily Stoic

12 Lessons From 12 Months Owning A Bookstore

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Education, Daily Stoic, Stoic, Ryan Holiday, Self-improvement, 694393, Stoic Philosophy, Business, Society & Culture, Stoicism, Philosophy

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It's going to take longer than you thought, but it will be worth it in the end.

By the first week of March 2020 the world was entrenched in a pandemic. What began with such excitement for Ryan Holiday and his wife Samantha ended up taking much longer and costing way more than they had expected. In this video Ryan breaks down the 12 most important lessons that he's taken away from the first year being in business.

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We ask people to bring in 3 words of meaning and significance to their lives and we use that as a springboard for conversation.

0:51.0

And then at the end of the show we ask them for a word that they'll be happy never to hear again.

0:56.0

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1:04.0

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic.

1:07.0

Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those 4 Stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom.

1:18.0

And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics.

1:23.0

We interview some of the most important things we've ever done.

1:27.0

And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

1:44.0

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal.

1:55.0

And most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

2:00.0

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.

2:07.0

As you know, Stoicism is a philosophy you try to actually apply. You try to actually use whatever it is that you're doing.

2:14.0

Of course I write about Stoicism, but I have to use it in my life as I write about Stoicism.

2:20.0

Right, whether I'm putting out a book or working on a book or, you know, dealing with the heat here in Texas, I try to think about how to use Stoicism the way that the Stoics used it, which was on big problems and little problems all the same.

2:35.0

And as you know, the big sort of project of the last couple years in my life is not just this for virtue series I'm working on, but this bookstore I opened here in Bastrop, Texas in the middle of the pandemic.

2:44.0

When it felt like the world was falling to pieces and over the last year or so of it being open, I learned a lot about business.

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