Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our

actual lives. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy. Are you willing to be taught? Wisdom isn't just what you seek out. In fact, much of the most

important wisdom we learn in life seeks us out.

The piece of unsolicited advice from someone who's been in our position, the painful consequences

of a bad decision that become undeniably clear, the feedback from the audience or the customer after all those years of work.

The question, as we talked about in a recent daily stoic episode, is whether you're willing

to be taught. Life is constantly speaking to you, the world is always trying to teach you,

but do you hear it? Are you open to it? Epictita said that we cannot learn that which we think we already know.

Zeno reminds us that conceit is the impediment to growth and change.

If you're not willing to be taught, you cannot learn.

In this regard, let us take Marcus Aurelius is our model and

example that he loved to read and study was only a part of what made him great.

Marcus was willing not just to respect the unique position of being emperor in waiting to Antoninus,

but also willingly showed up to class for the next two decades.

It's incredible.

No one had the power to force him to submit to that to be open to being taught and tutored.

That was something he chose. Will you choose the same? Are you willing to be taught?

Let's hope so. The healing power of nature is a powerful series that builds

on this research to deliver rich audio of the natural worlds that will have positive effects

on your mind and body.

It's a guide by environmental psychologist Alex Smalley.

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