Author Adam Rubin on Creativity and Pursuing Your Passion | Did It Make You Better

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Adam Rubin about his newest book High Five, taking the leap from being a part time artist to being a full time artist, the magic that is being able to express yourself creatively, following your destiny and inspiring others to do the same, and more.

Adam Rubin is a #1 New York Times best selling author of children's books. His books have sold over one million copies. Rubin graduated from Washington University in St. Louis where he studied advertising and worked as an advertising creative director for ten years before leaving his day job to focus on writing books. His new book Gladys the Magic Chicken comes out on October 26th, 2021.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:11.2	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.3	Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight
0:24.3	here in everyday life and on Wednesdays we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy
0:31.9	well-known and obscure
0:33.9	fascinating and powerful with them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them
0:39.1	become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives
0:46.5	Did it make you better?
0:49.3	Musoneus Rufus was exiled four times
0:51.9	for those of us who just spent a year complaining about pseudo quarantine and social distancing
0:57.5	Can you imagine?
0:59.5	Losing everything being sent away from home missing all the things you considered normal not once but over and over again
1:07.3	And yet as I tell in his chapter in lives of the Stoics Musoneus Rufus never wavered under this pressure
1:14.3	Instead he was transformed by each time just as his heroes like Dioge and he's had been
1:19.8	He believed that exile was a cure for soft living and luxury and that by
1:25.2	Acustoming a person to live more austerely it restored their health more impressively
1:30.0	He saw exile as an opportunity to do good while stuck on an island off the coast of Greece a fresh water
1:36.6	Star of Tellholl
1:37.7	He helped local villagers discover an underground spring which improved life for all who languished there
1:44.4	How did Musoneus do this well first?
1:46.7	Adversity was something he had trained for while in Rome he lived on hard mattresses and familiarized himself with hunger and thirst
1:54.5	By training he said the body is strengthened and becomes capable of enduring hardship
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