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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to sing, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic. You know, it would be insane not to be stressed out right now. I know I'm super stressed not only because of the COVID stuff.

I'm pretty exhausted. I just spent the last eight days recording the audiobook to Lies of the Stoics, which instead of being able to do in a studio with the producer, I did it in my office with a sound deadening things stacked up against box of books and, you know, the most cobbled together system you can imagine and couldn't do it with AC because in the AC here in the background and I was sweating my crazy plus all the other things.

I mean, these are stressful times. It would be again insane not to be stressed. No childcare. You haven't been able to go out or relax or see people. You've got stuff piling up. You got, you know, your schedules thrown sideways. These are, these are stressful times. And I think, you know, I do think it's important to that a Stoics, we don't think that the Stoics simply do not experience stress that they're above it.

Or that they stuff it down and just eat it. You know, that's not what Stoicism is. Stoicism is it's the process of integrating, channeling, dismantling stress so that it doesn't destroy you. And obviously, I think Marcus, a realist is a good example of this. If we can, you know, you look at a picture of a president today when they get elected and then four years later when they're up for reelection, just the amount of gray hair.

The way they've put on out sunken in their cheeks are to be head of state is in an immensely stressful job, just as if you watch, you know, you look at photos of your parents when they had you versus when you were a teenager versus when you went off to college.

You know, these are stressful difficult things. And I think, you know, obviously something like a pandemic is only going to contribute to that we're experiencing, you know, although historically not an anomaly.

It is a once in a century kind of event and that should that that should certainly add to what is on our plate and I'm no exception to that. But, you know, life goes on. We have to figure out how to integrate and overcome this stress.

And so that's what today's message is about. I was specifically interested in how Senna cah processes and integrates stress how he slays his stress as we've been saying.

Look, this is a guy, if you can imagine what working for Nero would have been like if you could imagine being exiled for eight years on the island of Corsica would be like, if you could imagine the stress and the pain of losing a young child as Senna cah did as just a writer.

I am in awe of what Senna cah was able to accomplish and I I shudder to think at how difficult it must have been, you know, given the primitive writing tools that he had at the time.

And just what it would have been like to publish then to deal with feedback then, you know, to have something in your head and the stress of it not being as good on the page.

These are sort of timeless difficulties. What Senna cah went through is not that different than what we go through what Marcus went through is not that different than what we go through.

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