What American Legacy Company US Steel Can Learn From Stoicism
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🗓️ 3 September 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
When Ryan was asked to give a talk to the leaders of one of the most foundational companies in American history, the United States Steel Corporation, he drew inspiration from Marcus Aurelius’ examinations of fire - how it melts whatever material is thrown into it in order to create fuel and heat - to put together a speech that illustrates how the Stoic virtue of Courage can be converted into success at the highest levels of industry.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | On Sundays we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic |
| 0:13.3 | texts, audiobooks that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom |
| 0:21.6 | that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend. |
| 0:25.5 | We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly |
| 0:30.1 | that you're able to apply it to your actual life. |
| 0:33.6 | Thank you for listening. |
| 0:38.0 | Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 0:48.4 | Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:53.0 | Back in April, I didn't get to go out in person, but I gave a talk to U.S. Steel, a great |
| 1:02.3 | American company in the sense that it goes way, way back in American history, an American |
| 1:09.4 | industry. |
| 1:10.4 | Actually, my father and I worked at California Steel for many, many years, but it's always |
| 1:15.2 | interesting to talk to leaders in different fields, right? |
| 1:19.8 | When I'm writing about Stoicism, I'm not thinking, hey, this is going to work for |
| 1:23.1 | executives in the steel business, just as I'm not thinking, hey, it'll resonate with special |
| 1:28.1 | forces operators or professional athletes or librarians. |
| 1:32.1 | But actually, what I'm trying to do with Stoicism is talk about how it pertains to you what |
| 1:38.3 | you do. |
| 1:39.5 | Real people do and real stuff as the Stoics were, and obviously the Stoics were familiar |
| 1:45.2 | with Stoic's lately less tech-driven process for making it back in Marcus Aurelius's |
| 1:52.4 | day, but his images and metaphors of fire, for instance, how strong enough fire melts |
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