How Stoicism Can Help You Persevere and Succeed
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 10 October 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
On today’s podcast Ryan speaks to a group of entrepreneurs about one of the biggest threats they will face in pursuing their goals: themselves. Our egos can stunt us, alienate us, tarnish our successes and deepen our failures, which is why it is so maligned by the Stoics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday |
| 0:15.3 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:19.2 | Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice |
| 0:24.1 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics |
| 0:30.5 | We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives |
| 0:40.3 | And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things |
| 0:46.9 | Have slowed down 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 |
| 1:01.1 | Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast |
| 1:06.2 | You might not think of me as a business owner, but of course that's what I am at every author is an entrepreneur |
| 1:12.7 | You work for yourself you have to sort of eat what you kill you have all these sort of collaborators and people who work with and for you |
| 1:20.4 | But at the end of the day you work for yourself |
| 1:22.4 | But also Daily Stoic as it's grown and grown and grown has become its own business and now for almost 10 years |
| 1:28.7 | I've had my own marketing business press check as well and |
| 1:32.3 | Stoicism has been a philosophy that's guided me in that I've I've you know even one of my first |
| 1:39.7 | Articles was stoicism 101 stoicism for entrepreneurs, but stoicism is great for a small business owner because you're responsible |
| 1:48.9 | And there's so much that you don't control and all you really control is how you respond and I think you see |
| 1:55.2 | Companies fall apart because of the CEO or leadership. They don't know you know as we say you go as the enemy |
| 2:01.2 | You see people put their lives in to something, but they don't actually prize what's important and so that success is is meaningless |
| 2:12.1 | Really I think what stoicism is is a sort of set of principles a guiding philosophy that helps you as a |
| 2:19.8 | Business owner and executive that helps you in the real world and I don't think it's a coincidence |
| 2:24.5 | Of course that Zeno himself |
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