Author Bonnie Tsui on the Wonders of Water | Pressure, Like Power, Reveals

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🗓️ 14 April 2021

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Ryan reads today's Daily Stoic email and talks to author Bonnie Tsui about her new memoir, Why We Swim, their mutual adoration of swimming, how physical exercise can be a catalyst for creative thinking, the philosophical benefits of spending time in the water, and more. Her newest piece, The Uncertain Sea, is available now on Scribd.

Bonnie Tsui is the author of many books including American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods, which won the 2009-2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. Her past accolades include the 2019 National Press Foundation Fellowship and the Jane Rainie Opel Young Alumna Award at Harvard University.

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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.
0:11.5	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.5	meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life.
0:26.5	And on Wednesdays we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known and obscure, fascinating and powerful.
0:35.5	With them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives.
0:44.5	But first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors.
0:49.5	Hey everyone.
0:50.5	Hey everyone. Pressure like power reveals.
0:55.5	As the ancient historians noted, Marcus Aurelius did not receive the good breaks he deserved.
1:02.5	There were wars. There was palace intrigue. There were floods, a pandemic.
1:07.5	You grieved the loss of his father, then multiple children, and then he outlived his wife.
1:13.5	And this was on top of the day-to-day high stakes of running the largest empire in the world.
1:20.5	And while Marcus certainly staggered under the weight of these incredible burdens, it also exposed his true character.
1:27.5	Beneath it all he was decent, he was forgiven, he was dedicated, he was principled.
1:32.5	We've talked before about how power reveals. Well, pressure does too.
1:37.5	And the pressure that the boy who would be king was under,
1:41.5	it showed that underneath was a good man.
1:44.5	Marcus Aurelius is mentors and his parents and his philosophy.
1:48.5	It all stood up well underneath this unimaginable stress.
1:53.5	Well, the last year has been a pressure cooker too. There's been lockdowns, a public health crisis.
1:59.5	Many of us needed to find new jobs, new ways to manage our households.
2:03.5	We had to look in the mirror and deal with fear, with anxiety, and our roles as citizens and human beings.
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