Bobby Hall (Logic) on Turning Pain Into Prosperity

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

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🗓️ 11 September 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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On today’s podcast, Ryan talks to recording artist Bobby Hall (known professionally as Logic) about his new memoir This Bright Future, defining what enough is for yourself, the stigma of speaking out about mental health, dealing with pain and struggle in an expressive and creative way, and more.

Bobby Hall, known professionally as Logic, is an American rapper and record producer. He has released six studio albums and received two Grammy Award nominations. Logic achieved mainstream popularity in 2017 with Everybody; the album charted at number one in the United States and was certified platinum, while its lead single, "1-800-273-8255", reached number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and was a top-ten hit internationally. As an author, Logic released the novel Supermarket (2019), which was accompanied by a soundtrack of the same name.

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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
0:11.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday
0:15.3	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics
0:19.2	Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice
0:24.1	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics
0:30.5	We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives
0:40.3	And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things
0:46.9	Have slowed down be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:01.2	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast
1:07.3	I would say of all the topics and stoicism the most controversial the one that's I think hardest to talk about is
1:14.3	Of course suicide
1:17.4	The Stoics talk about it
1:20.1	with almost shocking honesty they
1:22.5	They refer to to the choice of death as as the open door which is almost
1:28.3	inconceivably casual to talk about such a such a permanent
1:33.6	Thing obviously they did not have our understanding of mental health or
1:39.2	depression or or trauma or any of these things
1:42.1	But they also lived under real danger whether it was plagues or tyrants or invading armies
1:50.5	Death was more real to the Stoics than it was to us and so it was pain and torture and
1:57.5	unimaginable brutality
2:00.7	So it's something but it is something I try to talk about the emails because I try to put like a modern spin on our understanding
2:06.7	Which is to me a stoicism as a philosophy of endurance and of
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