There is Only One Thing To Do | Don’t Hide From Your Feelings
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🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
It would be wonderful if the Stoics promised you some sort of breakthrough. One that solved for the messy divorce or the unfortunate bankruptcy. One that helped you rehab from the car accident or magically deal with a pandemic that drags on for years (as Marcus knew well). One that soothes you as you sit up sleep-deprived with an infant. The Stoics do, actually, offer solutions for these kinds of struggles. They just don’t come as the kind of breakthrough or insight that you’re necessarily looking for.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading |
| 0:13.1 | a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and |
| 0:19.1 | the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman. |
| 0:25.0 | And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epipetus Mark |
| 0:29.8 | Srelyas, Seneca, then some analysis for me. |
| 0:33.2 | And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works. |
| 0:44.7 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to The Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon |
| 0:49.2 | music. |
| 0:50.2 | Download the app today. |
| 0:56.1 | There is only one thing to do. |
| 1:02.3 | It would be wonderful if the Stoics promised you some kind of breakthrough. |
| 1:06.8 | One that saw for the messy divorce or the unfortunate bankruptcy. |
| 1:10.7 | One that helped you rehab from the car accident or magically deal with the pandemic that |
| 1:15.3 | drags on for years and years as Marcus knew well. |
| 1:18.8 | One that sues you as you sit up, sleep deprived with an infant. |
| 1:23.3 | The Stoics do actually offer you solutions for these kinds of struggles. |
| 1:27.0 | They just don't come as the kind of breakthrough or insight you're necessarily looking for. |
| 1:33.2 | In 1929, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote to his friend Ernest Hemingway about being blocked |
| 1:38.1 | on the novel that would become tender is the night. |
| 1:41.9 | Hemingway gave him a great piece of advice, words of timeless wisdom that Fitzgerald almost |
| 1:47.7 | certainly didn't want to hear. |
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