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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom and temperance.

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And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school, when we have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey there, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stood Podcast. Today, I wanted to talk about a thing that I think about a lot in my life.

You know, one of the reasons you become a writer is because you just want to deal with your own stuff. But there's almost nothing in life that does not require some form of leadership.

You can run away from it, of course, but, but leadership is the key to success in just about any field. It's also the, the dearth of that leadership is also I think one of the main things we struggle with as a modern society.

And so today, I wanted to look at how the stove can make us a better leader, whether you're leading a small team and a small business, whether you're the, you know, the CEO of a large corporation. Or if you're like the title of my friend Ryan Hawks, book, welcome to management, you've just been promoted to management.

Now you're, you know, what, what habits, practices, perspectives, do you need to be a great leader? And most importantly, what can the stoics teach us about leadership? Because the stoics were leaders.

That's actually the obligation of this philosophy. It's to not be a pen and ink philosopher as Marx realized talked about, but a doer in the real world.

A leader of men, a leader of women, a leader of a family, a leader of a business, a leader of a cause, a leader by example. All these things, that's what stoicism is calling us to do.

Today, we're going to look at how stoicism can make you better leader.

What's interesting about stoicism is that unlike most philosophical schools, which are sort of primarily about ideas, the stoics were like real people with real jobs. So Marx really is the emperor, centicosid advisor to an emperor. There were stoics who were generals, there were stoics who were teachers, there were stoics who were in various positions of public importance.

So they had jobs to do, and they weren't the only one doing them. They weren't just writers, so all they had to worry about was like the pen and paper and getting their ideas out. They had to convince other people to go along what they were doing.

So many endeavor like that, which is where I imagine most of you are, you have to lead other people. This is the art of leadership. And so what can the stoics teach us about leadership? What can they teach us about being better at persuading and leading and inspiring and sort of shepherding and organization, I think they can teach us a lot.

The first is a sort of core lesson of stoicism, which is as a leader, we have to know our limits. What is in our control versus what is not in our control? So this is the idea of the dichotomy of control. This is something that Mark is familiar with, we've gotten from Epictetus.

This is the first task in life. The first task of a leader is to run a line down a piece of paper and discern what parts of the job, what part of the business, what part of the profession is up to you and what part isn't. Right? So there's that expression you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink with your employees.

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