The Personal Is Universal | Short Stoic Lessons From All Of Ryan Holiday's Books
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🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Many artists—songwriters, poets, comedians, and so on—have said some version of the same idea: the personal is universal. Artists often find the more personal they get in their art, the more people tend to resonate with it.
It actually helps explain how Meditations has endured for thousands of years.
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And in today's video excerpt, Ryan highlights some of the most important Stoic lessons from all of his books. Check out the full video on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast |
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| 0:10.6 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, |
| 0:12.8 | where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom |
| 0:15.9 | designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, |
| 0:22.4 | how we can apply them in our actual lives. |
| 0:25.4 | Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:31.0 | The Personal is Universal. |
| 0:32.0 | Many artists, songwriters, poets, comedians, and so on, |
| 0:34.0 | they've all said some version of the same thing, |
| 0:36.0 | that the personal is universal. |
| 0:38.0 | Artists often find the more personal they get |
| 0:40.0 | in their art than more people tend to resonate with it. |
| 0:44.0 | It actually helps explain how meditations |
| 0:46.0 | has endured for thousands of years. |
| 0:48.0 | We should not be able to relate to more |
| 0:50.0 | than a person who has been able to do |
| 0:52.0 | the work of the artist. |
| 0:54.0 | We should not be able to relate to more than a person |
| 0:56.0 | who has been able to do the work of the artist. |
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