Ryan Speaks To The YMCA About Courage, Perseverance, And Showing Up Every Day
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🗓️ 23 July 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
As a fan of the YMCA and avid user of its services, Ryan jumped at the chance when the Pennsylvania YMCA asked if he would like to come to their headquarters in 2022 and speak to a group of the organization’s Executives in order to help them navigate the shifting gym usage landscape in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Ryan’s speech touches on a selection of the key Stoic ideas that he himself used to push himself through that time, including the importance of recognizing and embracing the positives of difficult moments.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | On Sundays we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic |
| 0:13.3 | texts, audiobooks that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom |
| 0:21.6 | that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend. |
| 0:25.5 | We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly |
| 0:30.1 | that you're able to apply it to your actual life. |
| 0:33.6 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:38.2 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:49.2 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:54.6 | Back in October of 22, I was asked to speak to the Pennsylvania YMCA. |
| 1:02.5 | They had a group of their leaders come together. |
| 1:04.6 | This was a remote gathering. |
| 1:06.2 | I didn't make my way out there, although I love YMCA's. |
| 1:09.5 | There's a great one here in Austin, right on Tal Mike that I like to swim in. |
| 1:13.9 | My wife used to play volleyball at a bunch of different YMCA's and I'm going to work out |
| 1:17.3 | or swim in the pools. |
| 1:18.6 | So I'm a big fan of athletic clubs and cool places to swim or work out. |
| 1:23.2 | So I'm always been a YMCA guy and they wanted me to talk about the ideas and encourages |
| 1:31.0 | calling. |
| 1:32.0 | They'd lost something like 60 to 70% of their memberships during the pandemic and there's |
| 1:38.7 | problems in major cities and changes and people built gyms in their house. |
| 1:44.3 | People started indulging in bad habits. |
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