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The Daily Stoic

This is the Secret To Getting Better

The Daily Stoic

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

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

“Through philosophy and in the company of philosophy,” Plutarch writes, “it is possible to attain the knowledge of what is honorable and what is shameful, what is just and what is unjust, what, in brief, is to be chosen and what it is to be avoided.” That’s what we’re all trying to do, isn’t it? That’s what Panaetius was trying to do with his “Scipionic Circle,” which met in the great house of Athens and Rome to discuss philosophy, share ideas and explore Stoicism. That’s why we’re studying the philosophy two thousand years later, reading these books, talking to each other, writing in our journals or even for an audience. To become better. To learn what must be learned. To be exposed to and inspired by the wisest minds who have ever lived. To be held accountable by them, too. To become like them—or at least a little bit more like them.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

0:08.5

wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life.

0:13.1

Each one of these passages is based

0:14.9

on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that

0:16.9

has guided some of history's greatest men and women.

0:20.1

For more, you can visit us at dailystoak.

0:22.1

com. For more, you can visit us, Dailystone.com.

0:26.4

This is the secret to getting better.

0:29.0

It's a pretty observable truth.

0:30.6

We become like the people we spend the most time with. In his book

0:33.7

Atomic Habits, James Clear talks about this. He says, one of the most

0:36.7

effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where

0:40.1

your desired behavior is the new normal. Your culture sets your expectation for what is normal and you surround

0:46.4

yourself with people who have the habits you want to have yourself you'll

0:49.9

rise together. As it happens in the ancient world there was this proverb it said if you

0:54.0

dwell with a lame man you will learn how to live. But the idea of dwelling with a lame

0:58.6

man cuts both ways. Epictetus was famously lame having had his leg crippled in slavery and

1:04.4

Marcus really spent an enormous amount of time with Epictetus's writings

1:08.4

didn't make him limp it made him wiser more more resilient, calmer, more compassionate, and Epictetus passed

1:15.3

those things on to him. A slave shaped a king and made him better. In fact, when we had

1:20.1

Shane Parish in the Daily Stoke Package,

1:22.6

we talked about a different idea from Epictetus,

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