You Must Learn From History | Watch Over Your Perceptions
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Ryan talks about why it’s better to learn from the experience of others, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal.
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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 |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
| 0:40.7 | Let's say you love sports, but are also you know a busy person you want to know the latest sports news |
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| 0:53.0 | Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcast |
| 1:00.4 | You must learn from history when Zina was a young man |
| 1:04.4 | He stopped to visit the oracle there. He was given a mysterious prophecy |
| 1:09.3 | You will find wisdom she said when you have conversations with the dead |
| 1:13.4 | What on earth could that mean? It's simple. She was talking about reading books are a way to speak to the dead |
| 1:19.8 | Want to learn about commanding an army discuss this with Napoleon via his memoirs want to learn how to endure exile or loss |
| 1:27.9 | Trisenica's letters his consolations or the lectures of Musonius Rufus |
| 1:33.0 | Trying to navigate a terrible pandemic. You can talk to the survivors and the victims of the plagues of history |
| 1:39.3 | Marcus Aurelius being a good example of both |
| 1:42.2 | Nothing of these people are with us anymore, but somehow across the pages of their books and the books written about them |
| 1:48.4 | It is if they are sitting across from us and yet so many of us reject the opportunity to have this conversation |
| 1:55.6 | We are as they say functionally illiterate by choosing not to read |
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