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

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

While most of us will never be an emperor or a rock star, we can imagine what it would be like.

It would be so abnormal as to be dehumanizing. Indeed, this is what a lot of famous people say—that they often feel like an animal at a zoo.

The point isn’t to say that we should pity famous people or even that we should try to avoid fame. The point is to say that, when we come across a famous person who seems to have stayed normal, we should learn how they did it.

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And in todays Daily Stoic Journal reading, Ryan discusses the power of cultivating a certain type of indifference towards the struggles that enter into our lives.

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0:44.1	Welcome to the Daily Steal Podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the
0:49.9	ancient Steal Podcasts, illustrated with stories from history, current events and literature
0:54.6	to help you be better at what you do. And at the beginning of the week we try to do a deeper
0:58.9	dive, setting a kind of stoic intention for the week, something to meditate on, something
1:03.8	to think on, something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen
1:08.4	to be doing. So let's get into it.
1:19.9	You must do this dance. Well most of us will never be an emperor or rock star, we can
1:25.5	imagine what it would be like. We can imagine what it would be like to be recognized everywhere
1:30.0	we go, to have thousands or even millions of people chant our name, to be constantly
1:34.9	interrupted by a fan wanting the photo to try to put on a disguise to go grocery shopping.
1:40.4	It would be so abnormal as to be dehumanizing. Indeed this is what a lot of famous people
1:44.8	say, they say it feels like being an animal in the zoo.
1:49.3	The point here isn't to say that we should pity famous people or even that we should
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