Life Is About What We Can Do For Each Other
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🗓️ 18 April 2021
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“Why are we here? It’s an impossible question to answer, I suppose. Of course, on a fundamental evolutionary level, we’re here to pass along our genes. This is why we strive for success. This is why we lust for sex. This is what keeps the species going. But equally encoded in that evolutionary software and in our culture is another purpose, another less selfish drive: The drive for meaning. Merely to subsist, to persist—what kind of existence is that?”
Ryan reads his recent article about the responsibility of service that life demands from us all.
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| 0:10.5 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
| 0:14.8 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage |
| 0:23.0 | Justice temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
| 0:27.0 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers. We explore at length |
| 0:34.9 | How these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time |
| 0:42.7 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:47.7 | 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 |
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| 1:41.2 | Hey, everyone. It's Ryan welcome to another weekend episode of the daily stoic |
| 1:47.6 | The last month or so. I've been working at a vaccine clinic here in rural Texas right right outside Austin |
| 1:56.0 | And it's been a pretty incredible experience |
| 1:58.6 | especially after such a |
| 2:01.2 | Tredisemparerian year where this massive thing was happening and unless you were a doctor or |
| 2:08.2 | You know a politician or an academic with certain expertise |
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