It’s Strange How Cowardly We Sometimes Are | We Are A Product of Our Habits
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Wondery
4.6 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Courage calls us and what do we do? We ignore it. We let it ring.
📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living: https://store.dailystoic.com/
Protect your Daily Stoic Journal from the wear and tear of everyday use with the Leather Cover: https://store.dailystoic.com/
🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast
🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dailystoicpodcast
✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail
🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/
📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Just join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.2 | One of the best decisions I ever made here with Daily Stoic was the decision to use Shopify. |
| 0:15.3 | Shopify is the backend for the Daily Stoic store. |
| 0:18.3 | If you've ever done our courses, those are done through Shopify. |
| 0:22.2 | If you've ever bought a signed book from me, you've done that through Shopify. |
| 0:25.4 | If you've ever bought anything from the painted porch, that's also through Shopify. |
| 0:30.3 | Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% |
| 0:35.5 | of all e-commerce here in the U.S. Everyone from Mattel and Jim Shark, |
| 0:39.8 | including a bunch of up-and-coming brands that you haven't even heard of yet, they're all getting |
| 0:43.8 | their start with Shopify. Designing your site and your store is easy. They've got hundreds of |
| 0:49.0 | ready to use templates to help you build a beautiful online store to match your style. If you're ready to sell, |
| 0:55.6 | you are ready for Shopify and you can sign up for a $1 per month trial and start selling today |
| 1:01.3 | at Shopify.com.uk.uk slash stoic. That's Shopify.com.com.uk slash stoic. |
| 1:20.9 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 1:28.1 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some |
| 1:33.2 | of history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 1:41.4 | and to start your day off, |
| 1:47.2 | the little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 1:49.6 | For more, visit daily stoic.com. It's strange how cowardly we sometimes are. They knew it was going to end in disaster. They knew he was terribly unqualified and profoundly unstable. They knew he did not care for one minute about anyone or anything |
| 2:19.1 | but himself. Yet what did most of Rome's senators do? They did nothing. They were not like Thrasia |
| 2:25.9 | defying and challenging, insisting on the truth, refusing to obey. No, they went along to get along. |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in 24 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daily Stoic | Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Daily Stoic | Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.