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

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

We’ve said before that a Stoic focuses on what they control. That is the essence of Epictetus’s teachings, after all. You put your energy where you can make an impact and you ignore the rest–the rest being fear of what other people will think, fear of the potential results, your chances of success, the long hard road that may come next.

To do anything else is a recipe for misery.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom
0:07.7	designed to help you in your everyday life.
0:10.4	Well on Thursdays we not only read the daily meditation but we answer some questions from
0:14.3	listeners in fellow Stoics.
0:16.2	We're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are.
0:20.2	Some of these come from my talks.
0:22.1	Some of these come from Zoom sessions that we do with Daily Stoic Life members or as part
0:28.0	of the challenges.
0:29.8	Some of them are from interactions I have on the street when there happen to be someone
0:33.5	there recording.
0:34.5	Thank you for listening and we hope this is of use to you.
0:45.7	Why you can't worry.
0:48.8	We've said before that a Stoic focuses on what they control.
0:52.1	That is the essence of epithetistic teachings after all.
0:55.2	You put your energy where you can make an impact and you ignore the rest.
0:58.9	The rest being fear of what other people will think.
1:01.1	Fear of the potential results, your chances of success to long hard road that may come
1:06.5	next.
1:07.5	To do anything else is a recipe for misery.
1:10.4	It's also as any experienced leader can tell you a betrayal of the job, a theft from
1:15.7	the people who depend on you.
1:17.5	The author Merle Miller once asked Harry Truman, the American president who faced one difficult
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