Dr. Kara Cooney on the Power Strategies of the Ancient World | This Is The Secret To Stoicism

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🗓️ 3 November 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to author and Egyptologist Dr. Kara Cooney about her new book The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World, the use of short term thinking and long term thinking as tools to gain power, ancient strategies that were used to gain and maintain power, and more.

Dr. Kara Cooney is a professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture at UCLA. Specializing in craft production, coffin studies, and economies in the ancient world, Cooney received her PhD in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University. She has released several books including The Woman Who Would Be King and When Women Ruled the World. She is also the host of the Afterlives Podcast.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcasts 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
0:20.0	passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life and on Wednesdays
0:27.5	We talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known and obscure
0:34.0	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
0:43.4	And their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors
0:48.3	This is the secret to Stoicism just one thing every day
0:58.0	That's it
0:59.2	Seneca said that the path to wisdom was best traveled by acquiring one thing per day
1:04.2	Something that fortifies you against adversity. He said poverty death or whatever else life might throw at you
1:11.0	So one might assume that Seneca is talking about some physical or spiritual object of tremendous weight
1:17.5	But we can see from his letters to his friend Lucilleus that what he was mostly talking about was quotes one quote a day
1:24.9	He was saying and sharing with his friend was all we needed to get better and wiser and stronger and more resilient
1:33.1	It's a bit of advice that is persisted through the centuries with websites and Instagram posts and inspirational
1:39.7	posters and tattoos and the like and here we are in the 21st century
1:43.7	doing the same thing and we're excited to continue that tradition with the daily stoke page a day calendar
1:53.6	Which is now back in stock not only that but unlike the past versions of the calendar this year
1:58.9	We've made it perennial. It doesn't matter when you purchase the calendar. It'll work
2:04.4	We want you to stop thinking of wisdom as something you get via epiphany or even just a couple years of study
2:09.7	No, it's something you accumulate day by day action
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