Gary Vaynerchuk on Stoicism, Soft Skills, and Becoming Your Best Self | The End Will Not Be Pretty

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🗓️ 1 December 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk about his new book Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success, how to get comfortable with vulnerability and emotional development, the best way to maintain long term business success, and more.

Gary Vaynerchuk is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and Internet personality. First known as a wine critic who expanded his family's wine business, Vaynerchuk is now more known for his work in digital marketing and social media as the chairman of New York-based communications company VaynerX, and as CEO of VaynerX subsidiary VaynerMedia.

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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 we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and
0:40.9	Also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors
0:48.3	The end will not be pretty life may be beautiful, but its origins and its ending rarely are we are born amidst pain and
0:59.5	Yellen and occasionally urine and feces we die when our body quits on us
1:05.2	It doesn't matter how great your life is how much money you make or how much power you amass in the end
1:10.8	We go out with a whimper as the 16th century Stoic friendly philosopher blaze Pascal observed the last act is bloody
1:20.1	However, find the rest of the play they throw earth over your head and it's finished forever
1:26.4	What should one take from this that it's all meaningless that death should be feared avoided at all costs?
1:31.7	Hardly what the Stoics want us to derive from these meditations on our mortality is a sense for the humbling
1:38.3	Fragility of our existence and as a consequence a renewed focus on the now the final act is bloody
1:45.1	So let's make the play as good as possible
1:47.6	We are rotting meat in a bag Marcus Aurelius once said the expiration date is approaching
1:54.0	What is there to be anxious about death the matter is settled
1:57.3	It won't be pretty and you don't have a say we are simply returning to the beginning of the cycle one that if you recall correctly
2:04.4	You have no recollection of nobody remembers their birth despite being present for it the same will be true of our deaths
2:12.8	However gruesome however painful
2:15.5	However unexpected so get to live in today while you still have time
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