Brad Stulberg on the Practice of Groundedness | They Are Us And We Are Them

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🗓️ 1 September 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to author Brad Stulberg about his new book The Practice of Groundedness which you can pre-order at https://www.bradstulberg.com/tpogpreorder, how the path to peak performance is inevitably tied to compulsive behavior, practical steps to alleviate the anxiety that comes with the lifelong pursuit of greatness, and more.

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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 become who they are and
0:40.9	also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors.
0:48.3	Take this motto to heart of people who rise to position of power. There are two types those who think they can do it alone and those who know that is insane.
1:00.3	This is as true today as it was when the ancient historian Cassius Dio was writing his Roman history in the early 200s AD in it
1:09.3	Dio examines what differentiated Marcus Aurelius from Comedis.
1:13.3	Given Comedis's deranged reign it might seem like he was destined to fail from the beginning, but Dio points out something fascinating about this young man.
1:23.3	He was not naturally wicked he says but on the contrary as Gaelus as any man that ever lived when his father died Dio continues.
1:32.3	Marcus left him many guardians among whom were numbered the best men of the Senate, but their suggestions and counsels
1:40.3	Comedis rejected. This was the critical difference between father and son Dio believed even when he was emperor he writes of Marcus.
1:50.3	Marcus showed no shame or hesitation about resorting to a teacher.
1:55.3	Seneca's instructions were along the same lines. Here and take heart this useful and wholesome motto he said, Cherish some man of high character and keep him ever before your eyes living as if he were watching you in order in all your actions as if he beheld them.
2:13.3	Though Marcus never mentioned Seneca in his meditations it is clear that he heard and took this motto to heart.
2:19.3	The first 17 entries in meditations 10% of the entire book are spent reflecting on the men and women of high character.
2:27.3	He kept before his eyes over his lifetime. From his deathbed he was arranging the best and the brightest of them to advise his son. He knew he was nothing without Antoninus and Rousticus and Herodus and Atticus and Fronto and Apolognes.
2:42.3	Their greatness guided him to his greatness because he allowed them to because he wanted them to. And that's the question for you today.
2:50.3	Are you living by this motto? Are your actions guided by someone of high character? Do you show no hesitation to resorting to a high teacher or do you think you can do it alone?
3:01.3	And look that's one of the reasons I keep a bust of both Marcus and Seneca on my desk. I want to put a man or a woman of high character up there for display to inspire me to act as if they are watching my actions as Marcus said to be as the ruler upon which we make crooked straight as Seneca said.
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