Troy Baker On How Stoicism Helps Him Be A Better Actor And Father
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🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Troy Baker about how practicing Stoicism enriches the life of the artist and the parent, why gratitude is so much more beneficial than comparison, why one of the biggest goals of life is to be okay with death, how a bad breakup and a Comic Con led him to Stoicism, why he cried reading Meditations for the first time, and more.
Troy Baker is a voice actor and musician. Since starting his voice acting career in 1994, he has become known for a wide variety of roles in video games, film, and television, including Joel Miller in The Last of Us, Batman and Joker in various media, and English dubs of Bleach and Fullmetal Alchemist. He currently holds the record for the most acting nominations at the BAFTA Games Awards, with 5. Troy’s work can be found at dpntalent.com/talent/troy-baker and on Twitter @TroyBakerVA.
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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 |
| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday |
| 0:15.6 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage |
| 0:23.7 | Justice temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
| 0:27.7 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview |
| 0:32.2 | Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the |
| 0:41.3 | Challenging issues of our time. Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:48.8 | 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 |
| 0:57.7 | may bring |
| 1:05.6 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast |
| 1:12.4 | I guess I just have to learn to trust my podcast producer |
| 1:17.2 | Rachel um, I've been super fried lately. I've just been running around it at the launch daily dad |
| 1:23.7 | I've been editing a bunch of stuff finishing another project |
| 1:26.3 | Just a lot going on |
| 1:28.5 | The boys have been sick |
| 1:30.2 | Thankfully, I escaped but my wife got sick. There's a bunch a bunch of been going on and so I sort of showed up and she said |
| 1:37.1 | I actually I didn't |
| 1:39.6 | I was in New York and then I flew in the morning because she told me I had an in-person podcast interview and I get there |
| 1:45.6 | I'm prepping for the interview and I'm like who am I talking to again? |
| 1:48.4 | And she goes Troy Baker the voice actor the actor video game guy. She's like he's a fan |
| 1:54.8 | You're gonna love this conversation and you know you never know what to expect |
| 1:58.9 | But I did love this conversation. We had an amazing talk |
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