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🗓️ 16 May 2021
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On today’s episode, Ryan talks about what Stoicism can teach you about managing your phone use.
If Marcus Aurelius was alive today, he would use a phone too. But he would be thinking about how to get the benefits from the technology without all the downsides. Try these strategies out if you're trying to spend less time on your phone. Some of them are easy. Others are tougher, and you’ll probably think some of them are nuts. Maybe they are. But they work.
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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 |
0:23.0 | Justice 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 |
1:01.1 | Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoke podcast |
1:06.4 | You are almost certainly listening to this on your phone or you're in the car |
1:10.9 | Which is just your phone plugged in to turn your car into a giant phone or you've got it on like a sono speaker and again |
1:18.8 | Somehow that connects back to the phone and it feels like so much of our lives connect back to the phone in somewhere another |
1:25.2 | There's no question. This is improved our lives in countless ways |
1:28.5 | It makes my whole business possible |
1:31.2 | You may have found me on some social app on your phone |
1:34.6 | So I'm not knocking phones, but I also don't know any person |
1:39.0 | Successful orange on zigzag. I don't know any person who's like you know what I'm going to try to do this year |
1:44.2 | I'm going to try to spend more time on my devices |
1:47.2 | Now we all know that these devices are a bit too addicting that we spend too much time on them |
1:53.0 | And you might not think the stoics have much to say about you know screen time because the screen's didn't exist |
1:57.4 | But |
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