Just A Few Seconds Of Courage | A New Way To Pray
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Ryan explains how a few seconds can define so much of your life, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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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 |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
| 0:41.4 | Just a few seconds of courage |
| 0:45.3 | John F. Kennedy won the 1960 US presidential election by less than half a percentage point |
| 0:51.7 | But actually he won it by making two phone calls as I explained in my new book courage is calling in October of that year |
| 1:01.0 | Martin Luther King was arrested |
| 1:03.4 | Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested denied bail and sentenced to four months hard labor on a chain gang |
| 1:10.1 | Coretta Scott King worried that her husband might be beaten or lynched called both the Nixon and Kennedy campaigns |
| 1:17.4 | Who both desperately needed the black vote |
| 1:19.8 | Though he was friends with King and saw this advice when he led the Eisenhower administration's civil rights efforts |
| 1:26.3 | Nixon hesitated not wanting to wait into the middle of the controversy when the call came |
| 1:32.3 | Nixon betrayed King |
| 1:34.1 | Kennedy meanwhile made calls first to console Coretta and then secure King's release |
| 1:40.6 | King made it known who stepped out for him when he needed it |
| 1:43.8 | Kennedy went on to win the election two weeks later by just 35,000 key votes across two states |
| 1:50.4 | How much time would it have taken to pick up a phone call and call the wife of a good man wrongly imprisoned |
| 1:56.3 | 20 seconds |
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