In Trying Times, Take Lessons from the Stoics
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4.5 • 979 Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:55.0 | This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, December 25th, 2017. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm Caleb Brown, as we approach the end of the most turbulent year in American politics and policy, did you feel like you |
| 1:06.5 | had any control over the outcomes or were you incessantly worried by events over which |
| 1:11.4 | you had absolutely no control. |
| 1:14.0 | Author Ryan Holliday suggests that you take a page or two from the Book of the Stoics, |
| 1:20.0 | and rather than attempting to control events, control your own reaction to them. |
| 1:24.7 | We spoke earlier this month. |
| 1:26.5 | I've read pieces of a couple of your books and as I said before we started recording, you |
| 1:31.0 | do have some fans here at the Cato Institute for some of your |
| 1:35.1 | work and if you wouldn't mind could you give us the short version of what it means to be |
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