It's All Normal | The Beauty of Choice
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 17 March 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks about how the challenges we face in the modern era are no different than what the ancient Stoics faced, about how everything we do for others comes back to us, 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 Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, |
| 0:21.9 | but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoke, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman. |
| 0:34.9 | And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stokes, from Epititus Markis Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me. |
| 0:42.9 | And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works. |
| 0:47.9 | Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person. |
| 0:52.9 | You want to know the latest sports news, but don't want to sit through a two hour podcast. |
| 0:57.9 | All right, if we're talking about you right now, then check out the new podcast from Wondery. |
| 1:01.9 | Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:08.9 | Wondery's new podcast, This Job is History, is hosted by Chris Parnell from Saturday Night Live and Rick and Morty. |
| 1:14.9 | Steeped in factual history, this brilliantly funny podcast delves into quirky and absurd jobs from the past. |
| 1:20.9 | Clock in and listen to this job is history on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:28.9 | It's all normal. |
| 1:30.9 | Certainly the last few years have not felt normal. |
| 1:33.9 | One cannot turn on the TV or scroll social media and not be struck by the images and the tone of it all. |
| 1:38.9 | Walking through an airport and seeing people in masks, it doesn't feel normal. |
| 1:44.9 | But of course it is. |
| 1:46.9 | Walking through an airport and seeing people in masks does not feel normal. |
| 1:50.9 | The enormity of the death toll that changes we have had to make as a society. |
| 1:55.9 | None of it seems normal. |
| 1:58.9 | But of course it is because as the Stoics knew abnormal is the most normal thing there is. |
| 2:05.9 | Look at Marcus Aurelius's reign. |
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