Daily Stoic Sundays: How to Feel Like You Have Enough
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 28 June 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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In today’s episode, Ryan discusses how to feel satisfied with what life has brought you—whatever that may be—using the wisdom of the Stoics.
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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. |
| 0:11.7 | 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 |
| 0:22.0 | 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. |
| 0:51.0 | We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirete and we are the hosts of a Red Handed, a weekly True Crime Podcast. Every week on Red Handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 1:10.0 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga. |
| 1:15.0 | Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Short Hand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like. |
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| 1:33.0 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior. |
| 1:39.0 | Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? What drives a child to kill? And what's the psychology of a terrorist? |
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| 1:57.0 | Don't tell yourself you will be happy when you do X or when you get Y. That is like the most insidious lie in the world. |
| 2:08.0 | I'm sure you can tell your audience like it's like you have accomplished things that you would have absolutely killed for like 15 or 20 or even a couple years ago, right? |
| 2:18.0 | How did it actually feel to get it? |
| 2:21.0 | Yeah, yeah, it doesn't. |
| 2:23.0 | It feels the same. |
| 2:25.0 | The only way I know to describe it is you don't like walk through life with changing states. |
| 2:32.0 | You sort of stay in this bubble and life moves. Does that make any sense? |
| 2:36.0 | So the goal is to strengthen my bubble. |
| 2:38.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:39.0 | And that will project me further into life because you don't. |
| 2:41.0 | If you're always feeling like someone has something better than you, I bought a Lamborghini when I was 26 for my birthday. |
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