The Secret To Climbing The Mountain
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🗓️ 8 January 2025
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The problems we face seem overwhelming. The change we seek will not be easy. What do we do?
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to The Daily Stoic early and ad free right now. Just join Wondery |
| 0:05.9 | Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, where each day |
| 0:15.4 | we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, |
| 0:21.6 | everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:26.5 | history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us, daily stillic.com. |
| 0:44.4 | The secret to climbing the mountain. The task before us is enormous. The problems we face seem overwhelming. The change we seek will not be easy. What do we do? Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer |
| 0:50.9 | of the band, Iron Maiden, and we have a great video of some stilic lessons from the band over at YouTube. |
| 0:55.7 | I'll link to that. |
| 0:56.8 | He once found himself sitting across from Robert Plant at a studio in Hilversum, a city in the Netherlands. |
| 1:03.3 | I'm having so much trouble with the album, Plant confessed. |
| 1:06.7 | It's like a mountain, and I don't know where to start. |
| 1:10.1 | Bruce Dickinson looked at him as he sipped his tea and said, try the steps. |
| 1:14.9 | The steps, plant asked. |
| 1:16.7 | Yes, the steps in the side of the mountain, Dickinson explained. |
| 1:19.6 | That's what they're there for. |
| 1:21.5 | It's both mystical and straightforward. |
| 1:23.8 | You climb a mountain one step at a time. |
| 1:26.7 | You overcome obstacles little by little. |
| 1:29.6 | Action by action, Mark Sparilius writes in Meditations. |
| 1:32.9 | You can check out our favorite translation. |
| 1:34.4 | We have a leather edition. |
| 1:35.7 | He says, no one can stop you from that. |
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