Important Things Are Simple | A Week Without Complaining
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🗓️ 2 August 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
“It’s hard to be an academic who specializes in Stoicism. Because the philosophy is so complex? On the contrary. Stoicism is a difficult choice for tenure because it’s so simple. The Stoics say what they mean and they say it clearly.”
Ryan discusses the beauty of simplicity, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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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 |
| 0:11.9 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.6 | So let's get into it |
| 0:40.8 | Important things are simple |
| 0:43.2 | It's hard to be an academic who specializes in stosism because the philosophy is so complex on the contrary |
| 0:50.8 | Stosism is a difficult choice for tenure because it's so simple |
| 0:54.2 | The stoics say what they mean and they say it clearly |
| 0:58.0 | Sometimes they say it so sustainably it can fit on an index card or a single line on an index card |
| 1:04.4 | Epic teetus. It's not things that upset us. It's our judgment about things |
| 1:08.4 | Marcus really it's the fruit of this life is good character and acts for the common good |
| 1:12.5 | Senica it's not that life is short. It's that we waste a lot of it |
| 1:16.2 | You can as we have summarized the entire philosophy in one sentence |
| 1:19.6 | A stoic believes they don't control the world around them only how they respond |
| 1:24.0 | They must always respond with courage, temperance, wisdom and justice |
| 1:28.2 | This is a good thing though. Maybe not so good if you want to make a name for yourself as a genius expert |
| 1:33.7 | Epic teetus once joked to some of his students who were proudly talking about having digested the works of the least straightforward |
| 1:39.8 | stoic chrysipus |
| 1:41.6 | You know if chrysipus had been a better writer. He said you'd have nothing to brag about |
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