Wisdom Takes Work CHAPTER UNLOCKED: Hear It Before Anyone Else
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Wisdom Takes Work, the final book in the Stoic Virtues Series, is out TODAY! To celebrate, Ryan’s sharing a special preview: a full chapter from the audiobook.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:11.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:24.2 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:33.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:40.3 | For more, visitdailystoic.com. |
| 0:57.3 | Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 1:03.3 | Welcome to another episode of the daily Stoic podcast. |
| 1:05.8 | As you know, the Stoics were writers. |
| 1:10.1 | I am a writer, but long before me, the Stoics were writers. |
| 1:12.8 | They had to be, right, because as we've said here many times, stoicism and writing are basically the same thing, right? Sitting with a journal, |
| 1:18.5 | sitting down with meditations, as Marks, Strulyas is doing. We sit down and we write to help us |
| 1:23.2 | think right. And that's actually one of the chapters in the new book, Wisdom Takes Work, which is now |
| 1:29.6 | out available everywhere. It would mean so much to me if you could support it. DailyStock.com |
| 1:34.5 | slash wisdom. It's up on Audible. It's out as an ebook, and we still have some signed first |
| 1:41.3 | editions at DailyStoeck.com slash wisdom. But I wanted to bring you a chunk of the audiobook here today, where I dive into this very thing. |
| 1:50.4 | This was one of my favorite chapters to write in the book. |
| 1:53.1 | This was a chapter I knew I was going to write from the very beginning. |
| 1:57.3 | And honestly, it was one of the chapters in the book where I had way more material than I knew what to do with. |
| 2:02.0 | And the reason I had the material is that I've been writing about this very idea for as long as I have been a writer. |
| 2:09.3 | I had so many note cards because note cards are where I sort of process things. |
| 2:14.2 | That's my form of a commonplace book. |
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