They Can Help You With Your Most Important Job
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 13 November 2024
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The more you study philosophy the more you realize that parenting is a topic almost every tradition has spoken about. The Daily Dad is built around accessing that advice—one piece at a time, one day a time, just like The Daily Stoic.
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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. |
| 0:26.5 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us, dailystile.com. |
| 0:56.1 | They can help you with your most important job. We think of the Stoics as philosophers, which of course they were, but they were human beings too, sons, daughters, husbands, wives, and most of all, parents. Marcus Aurelius had for a dozen children. Seneca had one. Cato had a son and a daughter. |
| 1:00.9 | His daughter, Portia, was one of the great female Stoics of history. So it should definitely not surprise us that many of the best insights from Stoicism seem to double as parenting advice. |
| 1:06.1 | Want a more peaceful home? Remember you always have the option of having no opinion, |
| 1:10.5 | Marx-Sraelis writes in meditations. Want to raise a resilient family? Remember, we don't control |
| 1:16.1 | what happens, but we do control how we respond, as Epictetus tells us. And Seneca is full of |
| 1:22.4 | tips for parents. Remember to expose them to good role models, he says, praise them, but not |
| 1:27.1 | excessively, show them how to be good sports in winning and losing. |
| 1:31.6 | And it was this wisdom, this tradition from the Stoics that actually inspired the Daily Dad. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm holding the new book here in my hands. I'll tell you about it in a second. |
| 1:40.5 | It was a way to help give parents a way to access this timeless advice, one piece of it |
| 1:46.3 | at a time, one day at a time. And I'm really excited because now we have this really cool |
| 1:51.1 | leather edition. If you've seen the leather edition of the Daily Stoic, I'm holding a leather |
| 1:54.8 | daily dad. But anyways, let me get into this. Because the more you study philosophy, the more |
| 2:00.4 | you realize that parenting is a topic |
| 2:02.1 | that almost every ancient tradition has spoken about. |
| 2:05.4 | You find lessons in raising kids from Plato, Confucius, and Epicurus. |
| 2:10.5 | History, too, has helpful wisdom for parents. |
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