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

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Ryan talks about the question you should ask yourself before over reacting, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day.

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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. Listen to it every Friday exclusively on Amazon Music.
1:10.6	Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stood Podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty not just reading our daily meditation,
1:18.6	but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in the Art of Living,
1:26.6	which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman.
1:30.6	And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis Relius,
1:37.6	Seneca, then some analysis from me. And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.
1:45.6	Is this the only story? Something happens. You have an emotional reaction.
1:54.6	By now, you know that this is the basic starting point, the practice of Stoicism and the daily lives of us normal folks.
2:02.6	Events are objective. Our interpretations are not. They are a guess. A story, an opinion, as to what's happened and what it means.
2:10.6	And whether or not our actions are to be governed by those instant interpretations is a good indicator of exactly how stoically we're behaving.
2:19.6	I recently interviewed Dr. Lisa Barrett, author of How Emotions Are Made for the Daily Stoic Leadership Challenge, which if you haven't done, absolutely check out.
2:28.6	I think it's one of the best things we've done. Given Dr. Barrett's pioneering work and the study of emotion,
2:33.6	we asked her to give us her view on Epititus' famous observation. Every situation has two handles or two interpretations.
2:41.6	That we decide which one to grab. We decide what story to tell ourselves. We decide how to react.
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