4 Strategies For Achieving Calm In Troubled Times

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

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🗓️ 11 July 2021

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On today’s episode, Ryan talks about four strategies he has for finding stillness in his life. Now, more than ever, we are being forced to recognize how complicated and stressful life can become. It is in times precisely like these that Stoicism is most powerful. The teachings of Stoic philosophy are a very helpful guide to achieve calm, even in the most troubled of times.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:10.5	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday
0:14.8	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes
0:18.7	Something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage justice
0:23.9	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend
0:27.0	We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length
0:35.0	How these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time
0:42.8	Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:47.8	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.4	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoke podcast
1:05.7	We live in tumultuous strange times. I mean the last year and a half have seen so much
1:12.7	Not just a pandemic and wildfires and earthquakes and
1:19.1	plane crashes and freak storms here in Texas, but an impeachment and insurrection
1:27.6	Just weird shit right I heard a great expression that life is getting weirder as we saw the easier and easier problems of life
1:35.2	More vexing difficult strange problems emerge and that's just you know how it goes
1:41.1	Uh
1:42.6	One of my favorite books is the seamt halves the black swan black swans are real they exist they catch us by surprise
1:49.1	but even
1:50.4	It's not just being prepared for totally freak occurrences just day-to-day stuff right may you live in interesting times goes the old expression
1:58.8	Well, we live in interesting times and if you let chaos stick around like you know standing water it festers
2:05.7	You actually have to deal with this you can't just let it lie if years ago when I was doing the marketing for stillness is the key
2:12.9	I went and I talked at Google and I gave some strategies that anyone can use to avoid stress or deal with chaos as it surrounds you
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