It’s Time To Quit | Stake Your Own Claim
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🗓️ 22 December 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Dwight Eisenhower gave himself the order.
Quit smoking.
It had been a 38-year habit, and he knew it was time. His health was on the line. His ability to be of service was in jeopardy. So he quit. After 38 years of smoking, he quit—cold turkey.
“The only way to stop is to stop,” Eisenhower would tell an aide, “and I stopped.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading |
| 0:13.1 | a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and |
| 0:19.1 | the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman. |
| 0:25.0 | And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epictetus Mark |
| 0:29.8 | Srelyas, Seneca, then some analysis for me. |
| 0:33.2 | And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works. |
| 0:44.8 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon |
| 0:49.2 | music. |
| 0:50.2 | Download the app today. |
| 0:56.1 | It's time to quit. |
| 0:59.1 | The white Eisenhower gave himself the order, quit smoking. |
| 1:02.8 | It had been a 38-year habit, and he knew it was time. |
| 1:06.7 | His health was on the line. |
| 1:07.7 | His ability to be of service was in jeopardy, so he quit. |
| 1:11.6 | After 38 years of smoking, he quit. |
| 1:14.7 | Cold, turkey. |
| 1:16.1 | The only way to stop is to stop, you would tell an aid, and I stopped. |
| 1:20.6 | This story is in discipline and destiny. |
| 1:22.5 | It's also the basis of one of the best days in the Daily Stoic New Year, New Year challenge, |
| 1:27.6 | which is coming up here very, very soon. |
| 1:29.9 | And it's there because the Stoics were big on this idea of quitting cold turkey, of quitting |
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