You Must Find The Stillness | Kindness Is Always The Right Response

The Daily Stoic

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Ryan talks about why it’s so important to find stillness, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day.

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0:13.2	And I promise you that if you give me just five minutes of your time, I'm gonna help you revolutionize your life.
0:19.9	My aim is to inspire and empower you with simple daily hacks that will help you feel better and thrive.
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0:41.6	The lowest people to bring in three words of meaning and significance to their lives.
0:46.6	And we use that as a springboard for conversation. And then at the end of the show, we ask them for a word that they'll be happy never to hear again.
0:53.6	So that's 3.0 Words with me, John Bishop and Tony Pitts. Listen to it every Friday exclusively on Amazon Music.
1:10.6	Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stood Podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty not just reading our daily meditation,
1:18.6	but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art of Living,
1:26.6	which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman.
1:30.6	And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis Relius,
1:37.6	Seneca, then some analysis for me. And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.
1:45.6	You must find the stillness. From the time the alarm goes off, it can feel like we get hit suddenly with a crossfire hurricane.
1:55.6	Our house is chaos. Our schedule is grueling. Our boss is screaming our ears off.
2:00.6	Our coworker needs us to show them how to do something for the umpteenth time.
2:04.6	We're running late for a meeting. We're coming down to the wire on a deadline.
2:08.6	We're not fully prepared to present to this client. We're supposed to meet that friend for lunch.
2:12.6	We're sitting in traffic one car away from the guy who won't lay off the horn.
2:16.6	And finally, when you do make it to the end of the day, even the cool, quiet, darkest pierced by the shriek of someone who's jammed their toe on the foot of the bed.
2:24.6	And that shriek is coming from your mouth after stabbing your toe on the way back from brushing your teeth.
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