Finding Calm – Chapter 3 from Nancy Sherman’s “Stoic Wisdom”

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Today’s episode of the podcast features an excerpt from Nancy Sherman’s Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience. Stoic Wisdom presents a compelling, modern Stoicism that teaches grit, resilience, and the importance of close relationships in addressing life's biggest and smallest challenges. A renowned expert in ancient and modern ethics, Sherman relates how Stoic methods of examining beliefs and perceptions can help us correct distortions in what we believe, see, and feel.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:10.5	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday
0:14.8	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics
0:18.7	Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage justice
0:23.9	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend
0:27.0	We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers. We explore at length
0:35.0	How these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time
0:42.7	Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:47.7	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.9	Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoke podcast
1:05.2	You may have heard my interview several weeks ago with the great Nancy Sherman who is formerly a
1:12.0	Professor of ethics at the Naval Academy and I now believe that she is at Georgetown University. She is
1:20.8	A long time writer and thinker about Stoicism someone whose works have been influential and helpful to me
1:26.9	She was just nice enough to give me a blurb about my new book on courage
1:31.6	When I read her new book stoke wisdom ancient lessons for modern resilience
1:35.7	I thought this is exactly the kind of thing I wanted to bring to the podcast
1:39.0	So I asked if I could pick my favorite chapter from the book and bring it to you guys
1:43.5	And she and the publisher were more than willing to oblige the audiobook is published by recorded books
1:50.0	And this chapter is about finding calm she talks about writing the book during the pandemic
1:55.3	How to overcome internal and external obstacles with physical training and mental discipline
2:00.1	As as we've talked about many times this is what stoke philosophy is for how do you stay calm amidst chaos
2:05.9	It's easy to stay calm on a beach somewhere. How do you stay calm when the world is falling to pieces
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