This Is How You Learn
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
"It was Seneca who told us how to learn from history and literature. Ignore the facts and figures, he said, focus on the moral lessons. Focus on what the characters can teach you about life.
Plutarch, the great moral biographer of history, would take this lesson to heart. Unlike the biographers of our time, who publish big, thick books filled with footnotes and postmodern digressions, Plutarch was obsessed by what we could learn from the figures he wrote about."
Ryan discusses the lessons you should be taking from the biographies you read in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon |
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| 0:07.4 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:08.9 | And I'm Ciri T and we are the hosts of a Red Handed, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Every week on Red Handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 0:17.0 | From the Idaho Student Killings, the Delphi Murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch |
| 0:21.5 | Saga. |
| 0:22.5 | Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Short Hand, which is just an excuse for |
| 0:27.3 | us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what |
| 0:29.8 | we like. |
| 0:30.8 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's |
| 0:34.1 | blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon |
| 0:38.8 | of genetic sexual attraction. |
| 0:40.6 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior. |
| 0:45.5 | Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? |
| 0:48.1 | What drives a child to kill? |
| 0:50.3 | And what's the psychology of a terrorist? |
| 0:52.2 | Listen to Red Handed wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:54.5 | And access our bonus Short Hand episodes exclusively on Amazon Music, or by subscribing |
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| 1:03.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic. |
| 1:11.0 | For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, |
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