Take This Seriously
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🗓️ 23 October 2024
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Stoicism is not a philosophy for the classroom, but a philosophy for life. You use it and it makes you better. That is, if you take it seriously. If you give it a chance.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to the Daily Stoic Early and Ad Free right now. |
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| 0:08.8 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:17.4 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | Each one of these passages is based on the |
| 0:24.0 | 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and |
| 0:28.1 | women. For more you can visit us at daily stoic.com. |
| 0:41.0 | Take this seriously. Several years ago, Bridget Delaney, |
| 0:43.2 | a columnist for The Guardian, went through Stoic Week, |
| 0:45.6 | an annual event where people from around the world |
| 0:47.9 | experiment in living like the Stoics for a week. |
| 0:51.2 | She read, she journaled, she engaged with stoic practices like the dichotomy of control, |
| 0:55.8 | accepting what's up to us and what isn't. As she admitted in a recent episode of the Daily Stoic |
| 1:00.7 | podcast, I didn't really like it and I wrote essentially a |
| 1:04.9 | piss take saying oh stoics you know they're so po-faced and boring and you know |
| 1:11.0 | the philosophy was just too strict too dower for her to take seriously. She was more of an |
| 1:16.6 | Epicurean she decided and after her column was published a bunch of present-day stoics |
| 1:21.4 | messaged her and asked her to reconsider. |
| 1:23.4 | Try living like a stoic for real, they said. Try reading Marcus Realist and Seneca |
| 1:28.2 | and Epitius. Try discussing the philosophy with family members and colleagues and |
| 1:31.3 | see if it doesn't seep into you, they said. |
| 1:33.9 | And so that's what she did. |
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