Robert Greene on the Power of Daily Practice | You Have To See Both

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

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

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to bestselling author Robert Greene about his new book The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature, the process of writing some of his bestselling books, how to have courage in the modern world, and more.

Robert Greene is an American author known for his books on strategy, power, and seduction. He has written six international bestsellers: The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 50th Law, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature.

DECKED truck bed tool boxes and cargo van storage systems revolutionize organization with a heavy-duty in-vehicle storage system featuring slide out toolboxes. DECKED makes organizing, accessing, protecting, and securing everything you need so much easier. Get your DECKED Drawer System at Decked.com/STOIC and get free shipping.

KiwiCo believes in the power of kids and that small lessons today can mean big, world-changing ideas tomorrow. KiwiCo is a subscription service that delivers everything your kids will need to make, create and play. Get 30% off your first month plus FREE shipping on ANY crate line with code STOIC at kiwico.com.

Ten Thousand makes the highest quality, best-fitting, and most comfortable training shorts I have ever worn. They are a direct-to-consumer company, no middleman so you get premium fabrics, trims, and techniques that other brands simply cannot afford. Ten Thousand is offering our listeners 15% off your purchase. go to Tenthousand.cc and enter code STOIC to receive 15% off your purchase.

LinkedIn Jobs is the best platform for finding the right candidate to join your business this fall. It’s the largest marketplace for job seekers in the world, and it has great search features so that you can find candidates with any hard or soft skills that you need. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit linkedin.com/STOIC to post a job for free.

Follow Robert Greene: Twitter, Instagram, Homepage, TikTok, YouTube

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcasts early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:11.2	Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.3	Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short
0:20.0	passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life and on Wednesdays
0:27.5	We talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known and obscure
0:34.0	Fascinating and powerful with them
0:36.1	We discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom
0:43.4	And their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors
0:53.2	You have to see both
0:55.2	We talk a lot here about the successes of the Stoics
0:59.5	We talk about Marcus Aurelius not being corrupted by absolute power
1:03.8	We talk about his brilliant navigation of the Antonin plague
1:08.0	We talk about Senaqa's brave end which itself was inspired by Kato's towering example
1:15.0	But it's important that we're not just cheerleaders the Stoics were real men and women and that meant real flaws too
1:22.5	We also have to explore Marcus Aurelius's failures as a parent look at comedists
1:28.8	Senaqa's final stand against Nero was impressive
1:31.9	But less so when one looks at the years of complicity in Nero's service
1:36.5	Kato too was unflinching at the end
1:38.9	But was his haughty demeanor and inability to compromise what contributed to Rome's demise in the first place
1:45.4	There was Dio Timis who committed literary fraud
1:48.0	Aurelius did a misuse who encouraged Octavian to murder his rivals and all of the Stoics who owned slaves
1:54.8	To study the past is not to just pick up what you like and be inspired by it
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.