This Choice Is Everything | A Cure For Procrastination

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Ryan explains discusses the choice that will decide your fate, 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
0:43.6	This choice is everything
0:47.3	It's a story that goes back to the very beginnings of Stoicism
0:51.1	Xeno has suffered his shipwreck and washed up penniless and Athens
0:56.1	He walks into a bookstore and he hears the bookseller telling a story about Hercules that Socrates was famously fond of
1:04.2	And there in the story Hercules is walking a lonely road in Greece
1:09.2	He comes to a fork in the path
1:11.4	Beside each one stands a beautiful goddess. They beckon him
1:15.7	One offers a life of ease complete freedom and absence from struggle or want
1:21.3	The other makes no such promises
1:23.9	In fact, she warns there will be struggle sacrifice and hard work
1:28.2	But this is the big but she says that her path is the path to greatness to the heroic destiny that Hercules was born to fulfill
1:38.7	Was this real? Did it really happen?
1:41.7	If it's only a legend, does it matter?
1:43.9	Yes, because this is a story about us, about our dilemma, about our own crossroads
1:52.0	For Hercules, the choice was between vice and virtue, the easy way and the hard way, the well-trought path
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