Stephen Hanselman on Pursuing Virtue and Redefining Courage | How Are You Going To Be?
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🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to his agent and writing partner Stephen Hanselman (The Daily Stoic, Lives of The Stoics) about how they both got introduced to Stoic philosophy, how his new book Courage Is Calling and the Stoic Virtues series came about, how true excellence cannot be achieved without the 4 virtues, and more.
Stephen Hanselman has worked for over three decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher and literary agent. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, where he received a Master’s degree while also studying extensively at Harvard’s philosophy department. He lives with his family in South Orange, New Jersey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast 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 passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight |
| 0:24.3 | here in everyday life and on Wednesdays we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy |
| 0:31.9 | well-known and obscure |
| 0:33.9 | fascinating and powerful with them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them |
| 0:39.1 | Become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives |
| 0:44.7 | But first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors |
| 0:48.3 | How are you going to be every day we have a choice we choose how we're going to act what we're going to do what kind of code we're going to look by as the title of Sheila Hades novel puts it the essential question of our days and lives is this how |
| 1:12.3 | How should a person be and that's really the central question of Stoic philosophy to to help you answer that question well |
| 1:22.5 | Each of us has the choice to be good or bad strong or weak brave or cowardly |
| 1:30.7 | Marcus really says writings in a sense are his attempt to answer that incredibly difficult question |
| 1:36.5 | You've been made emperor what kind of emperor will you be what kind of person will you be and when he lists his epithets for the self that's what he was answering |
| 1:47.5 | He was saying what a person what he should be he was saying upright modest straight forward saying cooperative |
| 1:56.5 | Disinterested and there's so many that we should add to this list resourceful resilient grateful kind courageous still |
| 2:03.3 | And certainly all of these words are better than the alternatives |
| 2:08.1 | Uncooperative insane duplicitous ecotistical crooked |
| 2:12.3 | So what will you choose today? How will you be that is the question and actually the rules I have I haven't written here my epithets for the self |
| 2:21.6 | I keep my my computer say honest calm fair father like a parent |
| 2:26.1 | Brave and generous. That's how I want to be every day in every way and everything that I do |
| 2:32.3 | I never want to forget it |
| 2:34.6 | Because I'm trying to decide we're becoming who we're going to be as Cheryl Strait says |
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