Make Good On Your Promise | The Wake Up
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Ryan discusses what we can learn from Martin Luther King Jr. about living philosophically, 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 Stoics |
| 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 |
| 0:40.7 | Let's say you love sports, but are also you know a busy person you want to know the latest sports news |
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| 0:53.0 | Listen to the leads starting five on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcast |
| 1:00.3 | Make good on your promise today is martin Luther King Jr. Day here in America |
| 1:06.8 | And it's worth taking a minute today to consider one particularly brilliant and inspiring part |
| 1:13.2 | From King's approach to civil rights |
| 1:15.6 | What martin Luther King didn't do in the 1950s and 1960s was simply point out how hypocritical and flawed the United States was |
| 1:23.9 | He didn't use his immense skills as an order to paint a depressing bleak picture of the racial state of affairs |
| 1:32.1 | On the contrary what MLK did was work hard to capture the true essence of what America was supposed to be |
| 1:39.2 | He picked up all the central beliefs of the founding fathers justice freedom equality and then he said |
| 1:47.4 | We can live up to this we can do this together. We are capable of better |
| 1:53.2 | Of course, America did not hear this message immediately in fact huge swaths of the population did not want to hear it at all |
| 2:01.3 | So King and his followers showed them they took to the streets and through the new medium of television made it undeniable |
| 2:07.6 | Just how far short America had fallen from its ideals how disgusting and disturbing segregation and racism were |
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