It's About Intensity Not Magnitude | What's Up to Us, and What's Not Up to Us
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Ryan explains why you should linger on the works of the master thinkers, 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 |
| 0:12.0 | 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 |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
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| 0:53.1 | Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcast |
| 1:01.3 | It's about intensity not magnitude |
| 1:05.4 | The Stoics knew we should listen more than we talk |
| 1:09.2 | That we should be avid readers and consumers of wisdom |
| 1:13.5 | And maybe that's why you've kicked off this year with a reading goal |
| 1:17.3 | I'm gonna read 50 books this year |
| 1:19.2 | I'm gonna read a book a week a book a month every book on this best non-fiction books of all time list one book by every author on that |
| 1:27.5 | Greatest authors of all time list and the Stoics would admire this energy |
| 1:32.3 | But there's also a reason that Marcus Aurelius and Seneca both caution themselves about their desire to read as much as possible |
| 1:39.3 | Both of them would have nodded in agreement to show pin hours line that intellect is a magnitude of intensity |
| 1:46.6 | Not a magnitude of |
| 1:48.1 | Extensity |
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