Chris Bosh, Les Snead, Scott Oberg, Bob Bowman, Dominique Dawes, and Brad Keselowski on Sports and Stoicism
The Daily Stoic
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4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode features some of the best interviews on Sports and Stoicism from the podcast. Ryan talks to NBA star Chris Bosh about his book Letters to a Young Athlete and the importance of putting everything into what you do even when it’s tough, Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead about making tough decisions under intense pressure, MLB Pitcher Scott Oberg about how Stoicism has helped Scott overcome physical and mental adversity, Olympic swimming coach Bob Bowman about how athletes can maintain stillness while still performing at a high level of excellence, Dominique Dawes about the most important moments that an athlete experiences, and NASCAR Champion Brad Keselowski about how to lead and build a team that consistently produces results.
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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 |
| 0:59.8 | Let's say you love sports, but are also you know a busy person you want to know the latest sports news |
| 1:05.3 | But don't want to sit through a two-hour podcast |
| 1:08.4 | All right, if we're talking about you right now then check out the new podcast from Wondering |
| 1:12.4 | Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcast |
| 1:20.5 | Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast |
| 1:25.5 | The unexpected strange surreal perk of writing these books about ancient philosophy has been their resonance in |
| 1:34.7 | Professional athletics not something I expected not something I anticipated |
| 1:39.3 | But as a sports fan as |
| 1:43.2 | as a you know amateur |
| 1:46.4 | Endurance athlete myself. It's just been a total joy |
| 1:49.3 | And I think the Stoic sort of appreciated that and marks are really is |
| 1:54.2 | Clearly it was familiar with boxing and wrestling |
| 1:56.5 | Hepictetus as well |
| 1:58.5 | Chrysipus was a runner. Client these was himself a boxer. So I think |
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