The Daily Stoic - Carry These Around Like A Compass

Episode Date: May 24, 2022

Ryan talks about the vitality of remembering the four Stoic virtues, and launches the new 4 Virtues Pendant.The Four Virtues Pendant design, custom to Daily Stoic, was hand-sketched by Lewis Williams, an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. The mixed-metal pendants are handmade by Williams, who uses the ancient processes of carving into the wax and casting into brass and sterling silver and then sawing, engraving, hammering & soldering the metals with precision and care. Each pendant comes with a 24" sterling silver chain and is handcrafted using traditional techniques and only the finest materials. The front of the pendant features a custom-designed seal with four elements representing the Four Virtues: a lion (Courage), a man sprinkling water into a jug of wine (Temperance), a set of scales (Justice), and an owl (Wisdom). On the back, it says, “Acta Non Verba,” which is Latin for, “Actions, not words.” Learn more and get yours here!Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2000,000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoward.com. Carry these around like a compass. Marcus Aurelius called them the Touchstones of Goodness, Courage, Temperance, Justice, Wisdom. To millions they're known as the Cardinal Virtues, four near universal ideals adopted by Christianity and most of Western philosophy, but

equally valued in Buddhism, Hinduism, and just about every other philosophy and religious tradition you can imagine. They're called Cardinal, CS Lewis pointed out, not because they come down from church authorities, but because they originate from the Latin Cardo or hinge. It's pivotal stuff, the stuff that the door to the good life hangs on. Like the cardinal directions, the four main points on the compass north, south, east, west, the four virtues are a kind of compass, a guide to what to do, who to be, how to behave, how to respond in every situation, to respond with courage or bravery or fortitude on or sacrifice, temperance that self-control moderation, composure balance, justice that's fairness, service, fellowship, goodness, kindness, and then wisdom that's

knowledge, education, truth, self- and wisdom, that's knowledge, education, truth, self-reflection, and serenity. These are the key to a life of excellence in every sense. If at some point in your life, Marcus wrote, you should come across anything better than justice, prudence, self-control, courage, if you find anything better than that, embrace it without reservations, must be an extraordinary thing indeed. And that was 20 centuries ago, and there's no question we've discovered a lot of things since then, automobiles, the internet, careers for diseases that were previously a death

sentence, but if we found anything better, no, we have not. And it's unlikely that we ever will. So memorize those four virtues, act on them, live on them, tell everyone you meet about them, and keep them close to your heart always. And if you want to carry those four virtues around with you like a compass, well, that's what we created the four virtues pendant. I'm holding it in my hand right now.

It's got the daily stoic four virtues seal temperance, wisdom, courage, justice, right? Lion, that's courage. A man sprinkling water into a jug of wine. That's this ancient symbol for temperance, set of of scales, justice and owl, the symbol of wisdom. And on the back, it says acta non-verba, which is Latin for actions, not words, or words, not, or deeds, not words. I would love for you to check this out. We worked with this awesome jeweler in Brooklyn

to make these new pendants. I'm always trying to improve what we do at Daily Stoke and I really re-imagined what the pendants we have at Daily Stoke look like here. There's a new chain, a new pendant, new sterling silver. And it's really great. It's launching today. You can check it out at dailystoic.com slash virtues pendant.

Or you can just go to store. That dailystoic.com and check it out. Also link to it in today's show notes. I hope you check this out. I'm really proud of this one. And it's funny. It just came in. We had a little get together.

Actually for the courage is calling launch a bunch of people that Bob Books came out. We had this dinner here at the painted porch on Saturday and the pendants had just come in. We had five or six of them and a bunch of the people that worked for me. They all wanted one, my wife wanted one

and I was cool to see everyone start wearing them and then this is mine. You can hear it there. I'm holding it in my hands. It just got an awesome weight to it. And I love this. You know, we had the four virtues coin in the store, but we added this act a nonverva. Deeds, not words thing to the back of the pendant, which I just think is the perfect

message to go along with the four virtues. You don't just talk about the ideas. You don't just read about them. You try to live by them. You carry them around as a compass that guides you always. I hope you check it out dailystoke.com slash virtues pendant or even those stored that dailystoke.com. Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Stoke Podcast. If you don't know this, you can get these delivered to you via email every day, check it out at dailystoke.com slash email.

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