How To Change The World | Count Your Blessings

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

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

4.5 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ryan talks about the importance of constantly learning that which you do not yet know, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal.

If you want to become a great reader, the Stoics can help. We built out their best insights into ourRead to Lead: A Daily Stoic Reading Challenge. Since it first launched in 2019, Read to Lead has been our most popular challenge, taken on by almost ten thousand participants. Today, we’re excited to announce that, for the first time ever, registration to jointhe 2022 live cohort is officially open.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:08.7	Hey, everyone. This is Dr. Rongan Chatechee from the Built to Thrive Podcast.
0:13.2	And I promise you that if you give me just five minutes of your time, I'm gonna help you revolutionize your life.
0:19.9	My aim is to inspire and empower you with simple daily hacks that will help you feel better and thrive.
0:26.6	Check out my latest Built to Thrive episode, streaming now, only on Amazon Music.
0:37.6	3.0 Words is back for another season exclusively on Amazon Music.
0:41.6	The lowest people to bring in three words of meaning and significance to their lives.
0:46.6	And we use that as a springboard for conversation. And then at the end of the show, we ask them for a word that they'll be happy never to hear again.
0:53.6	So that's 3.0 Words with me, John Bishop and Tony Pitts.
0:57.6	Listen to it every Friday exclusively on Amazon Music.
1:08.6	Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoodx.
1:15.6	Illustrated with stories from history, current events and literature to help you be better at what you do.
1:20.6	And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoic intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.
1:34.6	So let's get into it.
1:43.6	How to change the world.
1:45.6	We think we have to be an Elon Musk to have a big impact on the world.
1:50.6	We think that if we're not solving enormous and complex issues like global warming, we're not changing the world.
1:57.6	But just a cursory glance at history proves that in reality, changing the world doesn't require such grandiose measures.
2:05.6	We briefly mentioned this the other day that Marcus Aurelis' life was changed by a single book recommendation.
2:11.6	In book one of meditations, he thanks his philosophy teacher, Rousticus, for introducing me to Epic Titus' lectures and loaning me his own copy.
2:20.6	Rousticus handed Marcus Aurelis one book and Marcus read that one book and this changed the arc of history.
2:27.6	There's also the story of someone like Malcolm X, perhaps the most controversial of the civil rights leaders.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.