The Daily Stoic - A Stoic Isn’t Born. They’re Made.

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2, 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailystoweth.com. A stoic isn't born, they're made. Marcus Aurelius wasn't born, Marcus Aureliius, literally his name was Marcus Catalyst Severus Anius Varus. Epictetus wasn't born a sage, and to say he was would be to deprive him of the enormous credit due to a man who went from a lowly slave to a wise and powerful philosopher.

Starting point is 00:00:58 No, becoming this dough takes work, it takes practice. And we've been talking this month about the idea of spiritual exercising, a term coined by Pierre Hadoa, a great writer about the Stoics. Well, philosophy wasn't this thing you were taught, he said, it was a thing you did through reading, through journaling, through practice in the real world. Just as one becomes strong through lift and weights or skill that would working through time in their workshop. We've become adapt and able at philosophy through a similar process. Stoicism is designed to be that, a practice and a routine.

Starting point is 00:01:33 It's not a philosophy you read once and magically understand at a soul level. No, it's a lifelong pursuit that requires diligence and repetition and concentration. That's part of the benefit of a page-a book with monthly themes like we built the Daily Stoke about. By the way, it's 1.99 as an ebook right now. I'll link to that later. That's also the premise of the Daily Stoke Journal, right? You're meditating, you're writing about the themes every day and we're talking about we have the leather cover which you can check out also. But the idea is that you put one thing up for review to have it hand to fully digest each day.

Starting point is 00:02:11 Not in passing, not just once, but every single day over the course of a year, preferably year in and year out. That's also what we do in the challenges, right? Markets would say that a student of philosophy was like a boxer. Through training and practice and repetition, a boxer becomes one with their weapon. And through training and practice and repetition, reading, writing and a journal,

Starting point is 00:02:32 listening to the Stokes and Conversation, we become one with the philosophy. So make that your goal this year, to create a practice, to get the reps, to make stoicism a part of your life and mind. By the way, the book, if you haven't checked it out, is $199 as an ebook right now, only going to last for a few more days. You can get it on Amazon and get it on iBooks anywhere in the US and the UK. And then the new leather cover is out. Also, I think this is really, really cool. I love this tannery that we're working with.

Starting point is 00:03:07 This was a project long in the making, but perfect time to launch it here with the new year. You can check that out at store.dailystoke.com. And if you haven't read the daily stock or you wanna give it as a gift, this is as cheap as it'll ever get. So check that out. I'll link to it in today's show notes, but enjoy.

Starting point is 00:03:34 Thanks for listening to the Daily Stoke podcast. Just a reminder, we've got signed copies of all my books in the Daily Stoke store. You can get them personalized, you can get them sent to a friend. The app goes the way. You go as the enemy, still in this is a key, the leather bound edition of the daily stoke. We have them all in the daily stoke store, which you can check out at store.dailystoke.com. you

The Daily Stoic - A Stoic Isn’t Born. They’re Made.

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