Shaka Smart, Buzz Williams, Manu Ginóbili, Pau Gasol, Dominique Dawes, and Danica Patrick On Sports and Stoicism
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode features clips from some of the best interviews about sports in 2020. Ryan talks to Shaka Smart, Buzz Williams, Manu Ginóbili, Pau Gasol, Dominique Dawes, and Danica Patrick about finding balance between greatness and happiness, what it takes to become elite, the philosophical principles behind sports, and much more.
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| 0:10.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom and temperance. |
| 0:26.0 | And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare. |
| 0:36.0 | We think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not Russian to worker, to get the kids to school. |
| 0:49.0 | And we have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals, and to prepare for what the future will bring. |
| 0:59.0 | What if you were trafficked into a cult over shot nine times, or fell in love with a vampire, or went into a minor surgery and woke up one week later, paralyzed. |
| 1:11.0 | What would you do? |
| 1:13.0 | I'm Whit Missildine, the creator of this is actually happening, a podcast from Wondry that brings you extraordinary true stories of life changing events, told by the people who lived them. |
| 1:24.0 | From a young man that dooms his entire future with one choice, to a woman who survived a notorious serial killer. |
| 1:32.0 | You'll hear their first person account of how they overcame remarkable circumstances. |
| 1:37.0 | Each episode is an exploration of the human spirit and personal discovery. These haunting accounts sound like Hollywood movies, but I assure you this is actually happening. |
| 1:47.0 | Followed this is actually happening wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen and add free on the Amazon Music or Wondry app. |
| 1:56.0 | American-born businessman George Cohan, the founder of McDonald's Canada, was never satisfied with the status quo. Throughout his career, George was always searching for new ways to innovate and revolutionize the way he did business. |
| 2:12.0 | At McDonald's, that innovative spirit let him to do something truly extraordinary. |
| 2:16.0 | Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondry's show Business Movers. We tell the true stories of the business leaders who risked it all, the critical moments that define their journey and the ideas that transform the way we live our lives. |
| 2:28.0 | In our latest series, George Cohan gives up his career as a Chicago attorney to open the first McDonald's fast food restaurant in Canada. |
| 2:36.0 | But as George moves up the McDonald's corporate ladder, a chance meeting with members of the Russian Olympic Committee gives George an opportunity to shake up the status quo once again. |
| 2:46.0 | In the midst of the Cold War, George sets out to open the first McDonald's behind the Iron Curtain. Find out how. Follow Business Movers wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 2:55.0 | And you can listen and add free on Amazon Music or the Wondry app. |
| 2:59.0 | Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast. I think one of the coolest things about the ancient Stokes is how modern a lot of their metaphors are when I had Michelle Waterson on the podcast. |
| 3:16.0 | We were talking about how epic Titus and Marcus Aurelius' writings are filled with wrestling analogies and hunting metaphors and all these things as just as if they were living today. |
| 3:29.0 | I mean, they're not quite talking about the NFL, but, but they understood the power of sport. And they saw sports is more than just a diversionary activity. |
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