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The Daily Stoic

Kate Courtney, Karen Duffy, Meg Mason, and Susan Cain on Using Stoicism to Endure Life's Obstacles

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a compilation of some of the best Stoic wisdom from the Daily Stoic Podcast. Ryan talks to Kate Courtney about the important distinction between optimization vs. maximization, Karen Duffy about how Stoicism can help guide you through pain, Meg Mason about the vitality of being tolerant and forgiving of others, Susan Cain how to take heartbreak and mold something great out of it.

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Meg Mason: https://dailystoic.com/meg-mason/ 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation

0:09.9

inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues

0:15.2

of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper

0:21.4

dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we explore at length how

0:28.8

these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

0:36.3

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down,

0:41.6

be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal and most

0:47.4

importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

0:51.1

Drilla Words is back for another season exclusively on Amazon Music.

1:02.3

We ask people to bring in three words of meaning and significance to their lives and we use

1:07.5

that as a springboard for conversation and then at the end of the show we ask them for

1:11.9

a word that they'll be happy never to hear again.

1:15.1

So that's three little words we've made John Bishop and Tony Pitts listen to it every

1:19.9

Friday exclusively on Amazon Music.

1:49.9

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast.

2:04.3

One of my favorite little quirks, interesting side notes in the history of Stoicism is

2:09.9

this decision that Musoneus Rufus makes who is already clearly sort of an open-minded,

2:14.0

progressive kind of a guy to teach philosophy to a Pactetus to slave but he gives this fascinating

2:21.0

lecture, we may have even run it as an excerpt before, but the lecture is that women should

2:24.9

study philosophy too and the other one titled should daughters receive the same training

2:31.3

as sons.

2:33.2

And the point is what Musoneus was saying way back, way back early is that men and women

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