It’s Time To Change
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 17 December 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
You could argue that Meditations is Marcus Aurelius’ daily philosophical battle with himself to overcome this natural fear of change, to avoid getting trapped in a velvet rut, to not get complacent. Even into old age, Marcus was talking to himself firmly, pushing himself to do better, to not try to stay the same as he always was. It’s why he was famously seen leaving the palace as an old man, trying to learn, as he said, “that which I do not yet know.”
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different outcomes. There's nothing more disheartening than a person who refuses to grow, turn a new leaf, or take a leap of faith into the unknown.
Here we are at the end of one year and the beginning of another. Are you going to go in 2024 trying to cling to who you were? Even though it’s stopped working, just because it’s comfortable?
Why not start 2024 by actually taking the steps to create a better life? To actively step toward being the person you know you can be?
That’s why we created the 2024 New Year New You Challenge. It’s a set of 21 actionable challenges—presented one per day—built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy. Our goal is to help you make 2024 your best year yet.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. |
| 0:10.0 | Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, |
| 0:14.8 | something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, |
| 0:20.0 | temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:21.6 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. |
| 0:26.4 | We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the |
| 0:36.8 | challenging issues of our time. Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more |
| 0:41.5 | space when things have slowed down, |
| 0:44.4 | be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, |
| 0:48.5 | to sit with your journal, |
| 0:50.0 | and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:57.6 | It's time to change. |
| 1:00.6 | We've been this way for a while. We've been on this path for quite some time. |
| 1:05.0 | We've become accustomed to our routines. We've gotten comfortable. |
| 1:09.0 | This is natural. It's what humans, indeed all systems tend towards homeostasis plateau complacency it makes |
| 1:18.9 | sense but it's also terribly terribly sad because it's a short trip from leveling off to fighting off change to trying to keep everything the same. |
| 1:30.0 | When deep down we know that challenge and disruption are how we grow and improve |
| 1:36.8 | frightened of change, Marcus Realist asked himself, but what can exist without it? |
| 1:41.6 | What's closer to nature's heart? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? |
| 1:47.8 | Can't you see, he said, it's just the same with you and just as vital. |
| 1:55.8 | You could argue that meditations is Marcus Aurelius's daily philosophical battle with himself to overcome this natural fear of change, to avoid getting trapped in a velvet rut. It was him telling himself to not |
| 2:06.3 | get complacents. And even into old age, Marcus was talking to himself firmly, |
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