Do You Have This Ability? | Ask DS
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🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
A leader is a doer…but that doesn’t mean they’re always doing. In fact, if a leader is always doing, chances are they’ll end up doing the wrong thing. Because they haven’t taken enough time to think and study, question and prepare.
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And in today's Ask Daily Stoic, Ryan answers questions from US Marines after a talk he gave at the 29 Palms Marine Corps Air/Ground Combat Center. The topics that they touch on include how to practice Stoicism with your closest family members, balancing the ego that it takes to want to do something great with the tenants of Stoicism, his thoughts on Nietzsche's assertion that human beings have a will to power, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Anna, and I'm Emily, and we're the hosts of Terribly Famous, the show that takes |
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