This Is A Most Dangerous Attitude | Don’t Hide From Your Feelings
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🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It’s hard to keep a Stoic down or hold them back. They push through. They see obstacles as opportunities. They are not deterred by difficulties or criticism or friction. Like the old motto of the Royal Air Force, the Stoics believed that perseverance and determination were key. Per ardua ad astra–it reads–Through adversity to the stars.
This way of thinking makes someone a winner, it makes them a great leader. It can also make them dangerous. To themselves and others.
The author SC Gwynne, recently discussed this on the Daily Stoic podcast (a must listen/watch episode) as well as in his fascinating new book His Majesty’s Airship. He explained how when it came to experimental aircraft, the attitude of “press on regardless,” was courageous, it was also responsible for countless crashes…and countless deaths.
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And with today's meditation on the day's Daily Journal excerpt, Ryan reminds us that processing our feelings and pushing forward, sitting with our pain and accepting the grief, and finding help if and when needed helps us conquer.
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| 1:44.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Friday we do double duty not just reading our daily meditation but also reading a passage from the daily stoic my book 366 meditations on wisdom perseverance in the art of |
| 1:49.8 | living which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, and literary agent Stephen Hanselman. |
| 1:56.2 | So today we'll give you a quick meditation from the Stoics with some analysis from me and |
| 2:01.8 | then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words in to works. This is a most dangerous attitude. It's hard to keep a stoic down or hold them back. |
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