You Can’t Freeze Up | Turn Words Into Works
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🗓️ 28 December 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
“Where this goes and what will happen is impossible to ascertain. The only certainty over the next few months and possibly years is uncertainty. But there is one thing you can bet on for sure: There will be a lot of decisions to make. A lot of things to do. It’s going to be essential that you don’t freeze up. You cannot become paralyzed. It is the surest way to defeat and failure.”
Ryan discusses the importance of facing what life brings you with courage, and reads this week's meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes illustrator |
| 0:19.2 | The stories from history current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:25.6 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:32.7 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.3 | So let's get into it |
| 0:41.3 | You can't freeze up |
| 0:44.0 | Where this goes and what will happen is impossible to ascertain the only certainty over the next few months and possibly years is |
| 0:51.6 | Uncertainty, but there is one thing you can bet on for sure |
| 0:56.0 | There will be a lot of decisions to make a lot of things to do |
| 1:00.0 | It's going to be essential that you don't freeze up. You cannot become paralyzed |
| 1:04.8 | It is the surest way to defeat and failure |
| 1:07.9 | Remember to the stoics the essential virtue was courage |
| 1:11.4 | Courage doesn't mean you're not scared courage means you proceed despite being scared |
| 1:16.8 | Courage means you keep going means you don't get discouraged |
| 1:20.8 | Even when things are hard when other people are falling down around you when it's been a long time since you heard anything resembling good news |
| 1:29.8 | Cato was there when the Roman Republic was in its death throws |
| 1:33.5 | Marcus lived through the plague as we have written about |
| 1:36.8 | Santa Cato and Musonius and Epictetus were exiled and witnessed Nero's tyranny and insanity |
| 1:43.1 | The later stoics from George Washington to James Stockdale |
| 1:46.7 | experienced extreme stress and adversity |
| 1:49.6 | When all this was thrown at these stoics they didn't freeze they didn't despair |
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