Difficult Things Are Good For You | A Simple Way To Measure Our Days
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🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
When one thinks of a philosopher, they usually picture something like an ancient figure in a toga, or they think of a college professor in a tweed jacket. They don’t think of an athlete. They don’t think muscles, right? They think brains, not brawn.
But in the ancient world philosophers were warriors, athletes, hunters, boxers, wrestlers, and distance runners. They did hard things. They pushed their physical limitations.
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In today's Daily Stoic Journal reading, Ryan examines Marcus Aurelius' Meditation 7.69, and why the Stoics didn't believe that striving for perfection should be our primary goal in life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon |
| 0:04.8 | music. |
| 0:05.8 | Download the app today. |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. |
| 0:14.8 | On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading |
| 0:20.7 | a passage from the book, The Daily Stoke, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and |
| 0:26.7 | the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman. |
| 0:32.6 | And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis |
| 0:37.4 | Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me. |
| 0:40.7 | And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works. |
| 0:56.3 | All things are good for you. |
| 1:01.0 | When one thinks of a philosopher, they picture something like an ancient figure in a toga from |
| 1:05.8 | a painting, or they think of a college professor in a tweed jacket. |
| 1:11.7 | They don't think of an athlete. |
| 1:13.0 | They don't think muscles, right? |
| 1:14.3 | They think brains, not brawn. |
| 1:16.8 | But in the ancient world, philosophers were warriors, athletes, hunters, boxers, wrestlers, |
| 1:21.0 | and distance runners. |
| 1:22.0 | They did hard things. |
| 1:23.6 | They pushed their physical limitations. |
| 1:26.1 | Socrates was a soldier. |
| 1:27.5 | He was admired for his ability to endure cold weather. |
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