It Asks This Of You
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 11 June 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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No one ever became excellent by chance, the Stoics said…so if you want to be courageous and disciplined and ethical, you gotta do the work.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad free right now. |
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| 0:14.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:20.5 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:27.7 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy |
| 0:31.6 | that has guided some of history's greatest men and women |
| 0:36.2 | to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:41.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:49.1 | For more, visitdailystoic.com. |
| 1:07.0 | It asks this of you. The benefits are clear. |
| 1:09.0 | Resilience and toughness and clarity and productivity, freedom |
| 1:13.0 | from disturbances, from following the crowd, from impulses and urges. |
| 1:18.6 | Stoicism, it offers a lot. |
| 1:21.3 | And that's why it's popular today, to be sure. |
| 1:23.9 | And that's why it's been the secret weapon of impressive people for centuries. |
| 1:28.6 | And of course, we talk about all those things here at Daily Stoic. |
| 1:31.4 | These are the things that make for viral videos and cool quotes. |
| 1:34.8 | And they may be what attracted you to Stoicism in the first place. |
| 1:39.3 | But you need to know that Stoicism is more than just Marx's-Relius' morning routine. There's more to |
| 1:46.2 | stoicism than Seneca's cold plunges or all the practical advice he wrote to his friend Lucilius. |
| 1:52.1 | Because while stoicism offers a lot, it also asks a lot of us. In fact, it demands a lot. |
| 1:58.3 | Thrasia and Cato and Helvidius gave their lives in commitment to the ethical |
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