CrossFit Athlete Brooke Wells on Training The Mind and Reaching Your Potential | This Is How You Can Talk To The Dead

The Daily Stoic

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

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🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Professional CrossFit Athlete Brooke Wells about getting better not just physically but mentally, how she finds balance in an inherently unbalanced profession, how to be great but not miserable, and more.

Brooke Wells is a 7x CrossFit Games Athlete. She made a name for herself at the 2015 Central Regional, which she won at 19 years old. It was her first individual regional appearance. In 2014, she competed with team 540 Beefy of CrossFit 540 at the North Central Regional. She went on to take 16th in her debut Games appearance in 2015. She proved herself again in 2016, taking third at the Central Regional but catapulting to sixth at the Games with six top-five finishes and one event win. Wells is a student at the University of Missouri and a trainer at CrossFit Fringe in Columbia.

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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
0:36.1	We discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives
0:44.7	But first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors
0:48.3	Let's say you love sports but are also you know a busy person you want to know the latest sports news
0:54.2	But don't want to sit through a two-hour podcast. All right, if we're talking about you right now then check out the new podcast from
1:00.7	Wondering listen to the lead starting five on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcast
1:09.3	This is how you can talk to the dead when Zina was a young man
1:13.7	He visited the Oracle of Delphi to learn about his future the prophecy he got was cryptic his best life could have been had only through
1:22.0	Conversing with the dead. What does that mean? Zina wasn't sure until he made a realization you may have made yourself
1:29.3	Reading is a way to communicate with the dead and the past. It's pretty incredible actually
1:35.0	Although Marcus Aurelius is long since passed you can have a conversation with him by picking up meditations
1:41.4	Senica has been dead even longer and yet you can get what amounts to a daily letter from him every day
1:47.2	By reading letters of a stoic for roughly five thousand years humans have been writing things down in books
1:53.0	You can at the snap of your fingers talk to these people you can literally have them talk to you in the form of an audio book
1:59.8	Why would you not take advantage of that?
2:01.8	Why would you be so anti-social?
2:04.0	This of course is also a reason to journal and to write to yourself so that you can reach forward and talk to the generations
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