Changing the World with Civility and the Core of Stoicism | Alexandra Hudson
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🗓️ 9 March 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with author Alexandra Hudson about how to navigate pragmatic situations through civility, unbundling the mental framework of people, her new book The Soul of Civility, and more.
Alexandra is a writer, speaker, and the founder of Civic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicated to beauty, goodness and truth. She was named the 2020 Novak Journalism Fellow, and contributes to Fox News, CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, and Newsweek. She earned a master's degree in public policy at the London School of Economics as a Rotary Scholar, and is an adjunct professor at the Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy. She is also the creator of a series for The Teaching Company called Storytelling and The Human Condition, now available for streaming. She lives in Indianapolis, IN with her husband and children.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. |
| 0:10.0 | Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, |
| 0:14.8 | something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, |
| 0:20.0 | temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:21.6 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. |
| 0:26.4 | We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the |
| 0:36.8 | challenging issues of our time. Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more |
| 0:41.5 | space when things have slowed down, |
| 0:44.4 | be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, |
| 0:48.5 | to sit with your journal, and most importantly, |
| 0:50.9 | to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:54.7 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:56.8 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Soak Podcast. |
| 0:59.6 | Hopefully you can tell my voice is a little bit back. The congestion has lifted, thankfully. |
| 1:06.4 | I had my septum operated on a couple times from injuries when I was a kid, I guess. |
| 1:10.4 | But I just get incredibly congested whenever I get sick and these terrible I guess |
| 1:16.8 | sinus infections and then I basically can't record for a while or it sounds like |
| 1:21.7 | I'm deeply sick even though I'm feeling totally better. |
| 1:24.1 | It's just this whole process afterwards and my ankle's a little bit better. I got a new |
| 1:28.9 | brace and then I am I'm off to an orthopedist on Monday trying to not go crazy not being able to run, |
| 1:38.6 | especially while I'm starting this book. But I did have a great conversation with Alexandra Hudson. She's a writer of a really interesting |
| 1:48.6 | book called The Soul of Civility. Maybe what you need to know about this book is the Wall Street Journal said that it |
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