Stoicism and the Art of Resilience

The Daily Stoic

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

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🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

How does someone who was born into slavery, whose master broke their leg and crippled them for life, somehow escape all that and become one of the fathers of Stoicism and an amazing thinker? Epictetus had every reason to be unable to transcend his own struggles, but instead he is one of the most important Stoic philosophers. He lived the philosophy and it saved him.

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1:10.6	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stood Podcast.
1:13.6	Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stood Podcast.
1:18.6	It looks something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom.
1:25.6	And then here on the weekend, we take a deeper dive into those same topics.
1:30.6	We interview Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.
1:42.6	Here on the weekend, when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.
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