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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals, and to prepare for what the future will bring.

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic. A couple of months back we did an episode on sort of ten awesome Stoic moments from history. It was really popular. People loved it.

There is just so much we can learn not just from the philosophers themselves as fascinating as Epic Titus and Marcus and Seneca are, but from people who maybe didn't even know what Stoicism was, but happened to be embodying it.

And maybe not even across their whole lives, but just one moment. Look, that's a choice I've made in my books. And sometimes people get upset about this for, you know, God knows what reason. But people get upset because, you know, in obstacles the way, let's say I'm talking about

John D. Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller is not Stoic. I'm not saying he is a Stoic philosopher. I'm not even saying he's a good person, but I'm saying in this moment, in this part of his life, he embodied an important idea in Stoicism.

For the same way that you see Alexander the Great come up positively in Seneca in some cases, but then negatively in Marcus Aurelius. And maybe Epic Titus had a third opinion, right? The Stoics knew that stories were powerful. They knew that examples and anecdotes were powerful.

That's what I try to do in my writing. That's what I try to do here on this show. So today we've got five more amazing, inspiring in some cases, almost superhuman examples of Stoicism, of overcoming adversity of acting with goodness and decency and self control.

I think each one of these stories embodies those four virtues in one way or another courage, justice, temperance, wisdom, some of the examples you're going to hear from are literally Stoics. Again, sometimes they're just athletes who were being Stoic in a moment, but I think you like this episode.

And if you want some more examples like this that are outside my books, listen to our other episode, 10 of the most inspiring Stoic moments in history. You can also check out today's episode and the other one I'm talking about on YouTube at youtube.com slash daily Stoic.

Epic Titus once calmly warned him about taking his abuses too far. He was bending Epic Titus's leg back, back, and when the legs snapped, Epic Titus made no sound. He cried no tears. He only smiled and looked his master in the eye and said, didn't I warn you?

Philosophy isn't something you explain. The first century Stoic Epic Titus once said, it's something you embody. So when we ask this question, what is Stoicism, perhaps the best way to answer is by illustration.

We don't care what someone wrote about Stoicism. We don't necessarily even care if they identified as Stoic. What matters is whether they lived by the ideas. People who exercise the virtues of Stoicism courage, justice, wisdom, and self-discipline in their actions, that's what Epic Titus was talking about because there's nothing more inspiring or motivating than seeing greatness embodied.

So let's look at five of the greatest most inspiring moments of Stoicism in the real world in history. Some ancient, some modern, some minor, some major. But these are real philosophical actions. Even if we don't see the person as a philosopher, they are, as Marcus Aurelia said, not someone talking about what a good man is like, but actually being one.

Steve Scott.

Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, North Plains, Oregon, 1996. The Golf World's anointed one. Tiger Woods headed into the US Amateur Championships, having 130 straight matches. With the win at Pumpkin, Tiger would become the first golfer to ever win three straight US amateur titles.

The first five rounds of match play were uneventful. Woods advanced to the finals where his opponent was a relatively unknown 19 year old named Steve Scott. After the first 18 of a 36 hole final, no one could believe it. Scott led by five holes.

The final 18 holes were a battle. Tiger cut Scott's lead to one in the back nine. On the par three, 10th hole, Scott drained a flop shot from the deep rough to stretch his lead back to two. Then Tiger sank a legendary 35 foot putt for Eagle to move within one.

On 16, down two with three holes to play, Tiger hit his wedge shot within six feet of the pin. He placed a quarter to Marcus Ball before picking it up. The marker was in Scott's putting line, so he asked Tiger to slide it over what he did. Scott made his putt to par.

For getting that he moved his marker, Tiger put his ball down and was about to putt from the wrong spot. If he did, he'd automatically lose the hole and the tournament. Just before Tiger could make this fatal mistake, Scott intervened.

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