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Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stood Podcast. On Thursdays we do double duty not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading a passage from the book The Daily Stood,

366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance in the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman.

And so today we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the stillsks from Epititus Marks, really a Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

How to get out of a slump.

The path to wisdom is not always as straight one. The journey is long and circuitous. It's a windy road with twists and turns, ups and downs and highs and lows.

And maybe you're in the middle of one of those lows yourself right now at the bottom of a valley. And this can be a scary place to be because without the proper perspective, it can feel like you're going to be stuck there forever.

You take a few steps in one direction and it feels like you haven't gotten anywhere. The top of the mountain is just as far away, not more distant. And there is a term for this phenomenon. It's called being stuck in a slump.

It pops up most often in the context of trying to achieve big important things. No matter what you do when you're in a slump, your goal always seems to remain out of reach. You try new things, you try the same things, you try to do them faster or bigger or more often. And still you feel rooted in the bottom of that valley.

And the whole ordeal comes utterly exhausted.

So how do you get out of this spot? How do you break free from a slump and make progress? We'll take reading which we talk a lot about here as an example. Maybe you're not reading enough. Maybe you're not sure why. Maybe you're not getting much enjoyment from what you have been reading. Maybe the insights have become few and far between.

What should you do? Instead of trying something new or doing more of the same here is an idea from the Stokes.

Go return to something that is really spoken to you in the past. Everything we know about the Stokes from precipice to Marcus Aurelius has them passing around some version of this reminder.

The idea of meditating on a number of master thinkers. The idea of reading and rereading of not being satisfied of just getting the gist of something of returning to the rhythm, as Marcus said.

Instead of expecting the next random book you pick up to really speak to you, go back to something that's already spoken volumes. Find out how much more it has to say. Grab a new translation of Marcus Aurelius and see him from a different view.

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