The Four Stoic Virtues of Leadership

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Mark Divine

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In today's solocast, Commander Divine explains leadership as it is through the lens of the four Stoic virtues: courage, wisdom, justice, and temperance. Hear how: When cultivating courage, action eliminates doubt-develop an offensive mindset Opening up the wisdom of our heart and recognizing the vastness of the universe helps us tame our ego-so it knows its place and can choose the positive course Doing the right thing and facing injustice requires risk: "Silence is violence" Restraining from worldly desires gives you the discipline to master yourself and fulfill your purpose Listen to this episode to hear how an ancient philosophy can help us in the present day of VUCA.

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0:00.0	To live an uncommon life, one needs to learn uncommon disciplines.
0:24.0	Hi, this is Mark Sabine with the Unbeatable Mind Podcast.
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0:51.0	Today I have a solo podcast.
0:54.0	And I wanted to talk about leadership through the lens of the four stoic virtues.
0:59.0	Those virtues are courage, wisdom, justice, and temperance.
1:06.0	I'll probably spend the most time on courage.
1:09.0	That's a topping near and dear to my heart. And I think courage.
1:13.0	Kind of precedes or underlies a wisdom and justice and temperance.
1:20.0	You could also say that wisdom is also the meta principle.
1:24.0	Really, it takes wisdom to develop courage or to lead with courage and to have temperance.
1:32.0	And to be the one responsible for making justice a reality.
1:38.0	At any rate, it's fun to talk about leadership in these contexts.
1:42.0	The leadership is so much about character.
1:45.0	All these fancy leadership theories ultimately fail in the face of a character deficit.
1:52.0	And yet, how does one forge a character of a good leader, of an authentic leader,
1:57.0	of someone who is courageous and wise and seeks justice and is temperate in their behavior?
2:06.0	Well, I love that stoic philosophy because they have an answer for that, right?
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