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The Daily Stoic

Time Management Strategies From the Stoics

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

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

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks about the different time management strategies that come to us from the Stoics. 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today

0:11.0

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday

0:15.3

We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics

0:19.2

Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice

0:24.1

Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics

0:30.5

We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives

0:40.3

And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things

0:46.9

Have slowed down be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring

1:03.7

Today we're exploring a better approach to time management. Why time management?

1:11.6

Because management of time

1:13.6

It's the most important thing that there is time is not your most valuable possession in a sense

1:22.1

It's your only possession

1:24.6

Everything else your job your house your car your family can be taken from you

1:30.1

Another way to think about this is time is the only thing you can't get more of you can earn more money

1:38.1

You can buy new things you can make new things as Napoleon said

1:45.2

Space I can recover time

1:48.6

Never this moment is not just important, but all moments are important and the time that we waste the time that we don't manage

1:58.0

well

1:59.3

It's time we never get back

2:01.3

Seneca one of the stoic philosophers has this brilliant way of putting time management in perspective

2:09.4

You know, he says don't think about death is something that happens in the far off distant future

2:15.1

That you're moving towards he says no death

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