Coping With Grief: 10 Timeless Strategies From Ancient Philosophy
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In today's weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan presents an excerpt touching on grief and the 10 timeless strategies read by voice actor Micheal Reid.
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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, |
| 0:50.0 | and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:56.8 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:57.8 | Welcome to a weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 1:02.1 | If you're like me, you lost some people this year. We all lose people every single year. That is the reality of life. That is the reality of the human condition and that's why the Stoics wrote about it. Seneca wrote three beautiful essays on grief, his consolation essays, and we can see meditations as a grief book, Marcus Aurelius, talks to himself about having lost people, |
| 1:25.5 | about having lost things, about preparing for the inevitability of losing people and things. |
| 1:31.6 | And in today's episode, I wanted to give you 10 timeless stoic strategies on |
| 1:36.5 | coping with grief. We had it read by Michael Reed who's been doing a lot of the motivational stuff |
| 1:43.3 | over on the Daily Stoke YouTube channel. |
| 1:46.1 | And this article is up on the Daily Stoic website |
| 1:49.6 | if you want to share it with people, Daily Stoic. |
| 1:51.6 | I'll link to it in today's show notes, |
| 1:53.8 | but let's just get into it. |
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