Are You Dug In? | 7 Perspective Shifting Stoic Tips From Actors, Writers, and Politicians
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🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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What about you? Are you ready for the inevitable, unending challenges that lay ahead? Just think about what 2024 could bring—we’re facing global conflicts, a make-or-break presidential election, untamed inflation, climate change…plus all the regular stuff! How dug in are you? How tough is your inner citadel? How is your battle stance? How sharp are your weapons? How prepared is your mind?
Are you a wrestler? You have to be.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:11.0 | On Tuesdays we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our |
| 0:16.1 | actual lives. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy. Are you dug in? |
| 0:27.0 | Are you dug in? |
| 0:28.6 | Considering what happened to him during his reign, |
| 0:30.7 | it was a pretty good strategy. |
| 0:32.5 | Mark Sorelius experienced plagues and war |
| 0:34.7 | and floods and tragedies. |
| 0:35.8 | He buried his own children. |
| 0:36.9 | He was betrayed in a coup attempt. |
| 0:38.8 | Rome's Treasury was depleted. |
| 0:40.9 | That was just the extreme events. There was also the day-to-day life, the week-to-week challenges that life brings every person. |
| 0:47.0 | Trouble sleeping, bad weather, feeling sick, hurting your knee, travel delays, of disagreement with your spouse, habits you can't quit? |
| 0:53.7 | How did he deal with all of this? |
| 0:55.6 | He says in meditations that he needed to face life like a wrestler, |
| 0:59.4 | waiting, poised, and dug in for sudden assaults. Some say that Marcus was cynical or a little dark in his |
| 1:05.0 | writings. No, what he was doing was preparing himself, stealing himself for the very real challenges |
| 1:10.3 | he faced and that he knew that he would face. |
| 1:13.0 | And what about you? |
| 1:14.0 | Are you ready for the inevitable unending challenges that lay ahead? |
| 1:18.0 | Just think about what 2024 could bring. |
| 1:20.0 | We're facing global conflicts, a make or break presidential election, |
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