How To Train Yourself | 4 (Stoic) Secrets To The Good Life
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🗓️ 3 January 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
You don't lift a weight one time and become strong. You aren’t taught something once and it stays in your mind forever. You don’t do the right thing once and it becomes a lifelong habit.
It would be nice if it worked that way, but it doesn’t.
Many, many more reps are required. In life and in philosophy. It’s about taking the right actions and holding yourself to the highest standard, day by day by day.
Today, Ryan outlines the 4 Stoic virtues that will improve your life, if you live by them.
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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 |
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| 0:39.1 | How to Train Yourself |
| 0:43.3 | You don't lift a weight one time and become strong. |
| 0:46.6 | You aren't taught to do something once and it stays in your mind forever. |
| 0:50.4 | You don't do the right thing once and it becomes a lifelong habit. |
| 0:54.3 | It would be nice if things worked that way, but they don't. |
| 0:57.8 | Many, many, many more reps are required in life and in philosophy. |
| 1:03.7 | As Epictetus said, philosophy is a hard winter's training, practice that a soldier does in |
| 1:09.2 | the safety of camp so that they may draw on it in a heat of battle. |
| 1:13.5 | You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers and digest their works, Senika |
| 1:18.6 | said, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. |
| 1:24.0 | This is a then is designed to be a practice and a routine. |
| 1:27.4 | It's not a philosophy you read once and magically understand at the soul level. |
| 1:31.5 | No, it's a lifelong pursuit that requires diligence and repetition and concentration. |
| 1:37.7 | Pierre Hado, the French philosopher, called this spiritual exercise. |
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