Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Friday we do double duty not just reading our daily meditation

but also reading a passage from The Daily Stoic, my book, 366 meditations on wisdom,

perseverance in the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful

collaborator, translator, and literary agent, Stephen Hanselman.

So today, we'll give you a quick meditation

from the Stoics with some analysis from me,

and then we'll send you out into the world

to turn these words in to works.

Are you too much? Are you too much of a coward?

It's good that you're tough.

It's good that you're a fighter, maybe even trained in wrestling there's so many of the Stoics were.

It's good that you're a risk taker that you put yourself out there pushed through fear and doubt to do what others are afraid to do.

But it's important that you don't forget that there is much more to the virtue of courage than just this.

There's a great song that talks about being too much of a to the virtue of courage than just this.

There's a great song that talks about being too much

of a coward to admit when you are in need.

Marcus Realist makes a similar note to himself

in meditations, reminding himself

that even the bravest toughest soldiers sometimes have to reach a hand up and ask a comrade for help.

What of it? He basically says that's part of the job too.

Stoicism is not just invulnerability if such a thing exists. Stoicism is having the self-awareness to know when you are struggling.

It's having the courage to admit when you could use a hand.

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