50 (Short) Rules For Life From The Stoics

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

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🗓️ 5 September 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Holiday defines 50 rules for life from the Stoics, gathered from their immense body of work across two thousand years. These rules functioned, then, as now, as guides to what the ancients called “the good life.” Hopefully some of them will illuminate your own path.

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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 and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:01.1	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast
1:07.6	I think the critical question that we're trying to address here at Daily Stoic is like what is the job of a philosopher
1:15.5	What does it mean?
1:18.0	To be a philosopher an epictetus says that when the standards have been set the work of philosophy is just this
1:24.8	To examine and uphold those standards
1:27.7	He says the work of a truly good person is using those standards when they know them
1:32.7	It's pretty straightforward as General Matt says no your flat ass rules
1:37.2	Stick to him
1:38.5	But of course the Stoics weren't always so direct
1:40.9	You know one of the one of the Stoics precipice supposedly wrote like 500 lines a day the vast majority of which are lost and
1:48.0	There's no real place that the Stoics write down
1:51.0	Their commandments
1:52.7	So what I wanted to do what I do in today's episode is riff on is also popular article
1:58.6	I did which is riff on kind of like 40 or 50
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