Julia Baird on Phosphorescence and Making a Habit Out of Awe
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🗓️ 20 November 2021
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks to Julia Baird about her newest book Phosphorescence, The awe and wonder that unfolds in the midst of deep suffering, how the journey towards achieving stillness requires incremental progress, and more.
Julia Baird is a journalist, broadcaster and author based in Sydney, Australia. She hosts The Drum on ABCTV and writes columns for the Sydney Morning Herald and the International New York Times. Her new book Phosphorescence reflects on her encounters with a luminescent phenomenon found in nature, and how she was able to cultivate her own ‘inner light’ in the face of a life-threatening illness.
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| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday |
| 0:15.4 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage |
| 0:23.5 | Justice temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
| 0:27.5 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview |
| 0:31.9 | Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging |
| 0:41.6 | Issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:48.0 | Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring |
| 1:01.6 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast |
| 1:08.2 | I love when people surprise you when you sort of put them in one category and |
| 1:14.2 | And then you find out they're capable of something you didn't expect under estimating is the wrong word but you just |
| 1:22.7 | You interacted with them in one component or one facet or you experienced their work in one |
| 1:29.3 | facet and then then you you meet them or you talk to them or you see something else they didn't you're like wow |
| 1:35.8 | Julia Beard is I have to say someone I would put in that category |
| 1:40.0 | I read and I have raved about her biography queen Victoria |
| 1:44.9 | It's one of the few biographies we carry at the payment porch |
| 1:49.0 | I used it as a source in stillness |
| 1:51.1 | I used it again in the book that I'm writing just now love the book highly recommend it |
| 1:56.6 | Check it out if you haven't and I shot her a note after I read the book like two years ago two and a half years ago and we connected and |
| 2:04.1 | And you know, I was thinking about people to have on the podcast and a shot her note and she said I'm happy to be I'm happy to come on |
| 2:10.8 | But I'd like you to read my new book and I said sure of course |
| 2:13.8 | She sent me this little book called Foss for essence which I'm carrying my hand the subtitle is a memoir of finding joy |
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