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The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Wondery

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

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Things go wrong. We get screwed over. We make mistakes. It happens. The idea that it shouldn’t affect a Stoic? Preposterous. No amount of training, Seneca writes, takes away natural feelings. So it’s OK that you don’t like what happened. What matters is what happens next.

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Ryan also talks about how Stoicism has improved his mental health and how it can improve yours too.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom
0:08.4	designed to help you in your everyday life.
0:11.4	On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual
0:16.8	lives.
0:17.8	Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy.
0:25.7	You can be this.
0:27.2	Just don't be that.
0:30.3	Things go wrong.
0:31.3	We get screwed over.
0:32.3	We make mistakes.
0:33.3	It happens.
0:34.3	The idea that it shouldn't affect a stoic, this is preposterous.
0:38.8	No amount of training, Sena Karaitz, takes away natural feelings.
0:43.7	So it's okay that you don't like what happened, what matters is what happens next.
0:49.0	Take the NFL coach Steve Wilkes, for instance, who was just passed over for a head coaching
0:53.1	job he more than deserved.
0:55.4	He took over as the interim coach for the Ailing Carolina Panthers when they were one and
0:59.6	four, and he led the team to a seven and ten finish.
1:03.2	He won the overwhelming support of the locker room and he impressed the league.
1:08.0	And yet there he was, passed over for the job for a whitehead coach who had just been fired
1:12.7	months before after leading the Colts to a three in five and one record.
1:18.2	Was there a racial component to this?
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