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Practical Stoicism

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Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Listeing to the words, advice, ramblings, and complainings of most people will do nothing for you. But perhaps there are some people whom thinking of, or listening to, would benefit your own goal of creating a virtuous character and healthy mind. Let's explore that in Meditation #4 of Book Three. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list : https://stoicismpod.com/suggested-reading Read our articles : https://stoicismpod.com/category/articles -- Online copy of Meditations (Long) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-long Online copy of Meditations (Casaubon) : https://link.stoicismpod.com/meditations-casaubon Online copy of Seneca's Letters : https://link.stoicismpod.com/letters -- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most of our media are owned by a handful of tech billionaires, but there's one place that still operates like the internet was never invented.
0:10.4	On the new season of the divided dial from On the Media, we're exploring shortwave radio, where prayer and propaganda coexist with news and conspiracy theories, and where an existential battle for the public airwaves is playing out right now.
0:26.3	Listen to On the Media, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:33.4	Welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm glad you're here today. Today's meditation is a long one,
0:43.4	so I'll keep this intro short, but that's actually going to be kind of hard to do because I need to thank
0:48.4	about 1,200 of you for your podcast reviews. While this show may only have 150 reviews on Apple Podcasts, it has over
0:58.6	1,200 on Spotify, and when I saw that, I was blown away, perhaps more blown away, even, than I was when
1:06.9	I saw not moments later that practical stoicism had broken into the top 40 of its primary category.
1:14.4	The difference between primary category and category is that I'm in the philosophy category,
1:20.3	but the philosophy category lives inside of the society and culture category.
1:24.9	So to break into the parent category in the UK was really a big deal to me.
1:30.9	I was blown away by that, not to overuse the phrase blown away, but it was very surprising.
1:35.7	But this morning, when sitting down to transcribe today's meditation and then build out the
1:41.2	episode, I got an alert that I have never received in the more than
1:45.9	12 years that I've been producing podcasts. Practical stoicism broke into the top 100 of its
1:53.0	parent category on Spotify in the United States. Now, the United States is the biggest market for
1:59.0	podcasts. So to do this in the UK, amazing. To do this in the U.S.? I almost didn't believe it when I saw it.
2:06.6	This is an accomplishment, again, that I've never experienced. And it is 100% because of all of you, showing up in increasing numbers and repeatedly every week. It warms my heart, and I know that
2:20.9	that is a cheesy thing to say, maybe you feel that way, but it does. It warms my heart to think that
2:26.7	in a world so seemingly unstoic that there is a thirst for this kind of content. I mentioned it in our
2:33.6	last episode, but I'd like to say it again
2:35.7	today. I feel incredibly useful because of all of you, not just because of your support as listeners,
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