Ask Daily Stoic: How Do You Recognize What's in Your Control?
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🗓️ 22 February 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Ryan talks about speaking to service members at Aviano Air Base in Italy. Ryan reads a passage from Twyla Tharp's The Creative Habit. You can also find these videos on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel.
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| 1:50.0 | He's essentially mad that his tweets aren't performing as well as he wouldn't expect them to. But really just felt like, okay, this really is just a platform being ruled by a dictator who does things on his own limbs. |
| 2:06.0 | And what will be left of Twitter by the time he's done? |
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| 2:32.0 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of Astley Stilic. So I just got back in. I was telling you a couple of weeks ago that I was flying to Aviano, the NATO base to speak to the men and women in the US Air Force. |
| 2:46.0 | It was crazy. It was quite a flight. I flew from Nashville, the Dolas Dolas to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Venice, and then I drove from Venice to Aviano. |
| 2:56.0 | But it was incredible. To speak to people who, again, it's so easy for, I think, for the philosophy to become this abstraction, to come this thing you talk about and think about. |
| 3:06.0 | But you realize, like, doas is the missing thing that you're meant to do. It's stockdale parachuting into that prison camp. It's someone getting three weeks notice that they've got a new posting and they're having to move from wherever they are to the middle of Italy. |
| 3:20.0 | It's somebody going through the separation of being far from friends and family. It's someone struggling with PTSD, right? It's someone struggling to pass a physical test. It's someone paying their dues. |
| 3:34.0 | It's someone putting their life on the line for the service of their country. To me, that's what stoicism is actually about. That's what we're studying. That's what we're practicing. That's what we're trying to do. |
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