The World Wants To Know | Pain Is Self-Inflicted Harm
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🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Ryan explains how we should think about courage, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
| 0:42.5 | The world wants to know |
| 0:46.0 | Farlem Shalamov was a brilliant writer who was sentenced in 1937 to years of hard labor in a Soviet gulag |
| 0:54.9 | What were his crimes? The same crimes that brought most people to those frozen hellholes |
| 1:01.3 | Finding themselves on the wrong side of a totalitarian regime random bad luck |
| 1:07.2 | daring to criticize the powers that be for not being communist enough for not confessing though |
| 1:13.3 | That would have hardly saved him and there in one of the darkest places a human being could be what did he find? |
| 1:20.4 | He found deep insight into the human condition |
| 1:23.2 | I discovered he said that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards |
| 1:30.9 | 95% of cowards are capable of the vialist things lethal things the mildest threat |
| 1:38.8 | When we ask about courage we are thinking about it precisely wrong |
| 1:42.7 | It's not our question to ask for it is we who are being asked the question |
| 1:47.7 | In Cormac McCarthy's dark and beautiful novel all the pretty horses in a dark prison not unlike the one that shamp |
| 1:55.3 | That Shalamov found himself in Amelia Perez puts the question to John Grady like this |
| 2:01.7 | The world wants to know if you have cahones if you are brave |
| 2:07.1 | That's perfect with the obstacles that life puts in front of you with the decisions it requires of you |
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