The Daily Stoic - Greatness Should Be Put Up For Display

Episode Date: December 10, 2020

"Go stand in front of the Jefferson Monument in D.C. on an early morning, watch the sun rise through the columns and shining on those words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness…” and try not to feel anything. Go stand in front of the Marcus Aurelius statue in Rome (or the replica at Brown University) and not feel as if you are a little bit closer to the man, and the incredible legacy of courage, moderation, justice, and wisdom for which he had lived."Ryan explains the importance of who we choose to revere on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee 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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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. Greatness should be put up for display. For more than four decades, Thomas Jefferson designed and redesigned built and rebuilt, imagined and re-imagined his Monticello estate. The founding father who drafted the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson also drafted the Blueprints for his house without any formal training, relying on his extensive

reading on architecture, particularly from ancient Rome and the Italian Renaissance. In 1789, shortly after returning from a few years stay in France, where one Paris home particularly inspired him, he renovated Monticello to add an entrance hall that doubled as a museum showcasing artifacts representing his interests and inspirations. It was the only space in Monticello that guests were guaranteed to see and the 30 gold trim Windsor chairs in the Monticello entrance hall suggest that Jefferson Hope visitors would linger

with the great minds that were so influential in shaping his own. Because along with the artwork, maps, animal hides and heads, Jefferson exhibited his collection of statues. The two most prominent in the room were bus of Voltaire and Turgot. The two French thinkers who guided his ideas

about subjects like freedom, religion, law, economics, and government. It was in Europe that Jefferson once wrote, the truth of Voltaire's observation offers itself perpetually that every man here must be either a hammer or the anvil. I have endeavored to examine more nearly the condition of the great, that degree of happiness, which is enjoyed in America by every class of people. Jefferson's library included all of Voltaire's works, so why purchase the bust as well?

Because he understood the power of statues. They aren't just works of art. They are blocks of stone to remind us that someone lived and died. That's a tombstone. Statues are guides. They represent a person who lived a life worthy of emulation. They inspire, they inform, they encourage, they stand for who we want to be. You don't agree? Go stand in front of the Jefferson Monument in DC on an early morning. Watch the sun rise through the columns and shining on those words. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed

by their creator with certain inalienable rights among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Try not to feel anything. Go stand in front of the Marcus Aurelius statue in Rome, or the replica at Brown University, and try not to feel you are a little bit closer to the man and the incredible legacy of courage, moderation, justice, and wisdom for which he lived. We should always be seeking out moments of this kind of association, reflection, and inspiration. When we see greatness, we should memorialize it. We should put it up on display on our desk, on the wall, in ink on our skin, on the home screen of our phones. However, you decide to honor the people whose example you love, put it somewhere, you are guaranteed to see it every day, just as Jefferson did, and ask yourself, am I living by the example

they stand for? And as I read that to you, I am looking at a bust of Marcus Relius. I have on my desk a bust of Sennaka. I have on my bookshelf as well as a bust of Zeno, the founder of Stoicism that I have across the room. It's these statues that have inspired me as I've written my books that I try to look at and touch at least once throughout the day. We actually ended up adapting a version of them for for Daily Stoic. If you want to check out our statue of Marcus Relius, it's our bust of Marcus, our bust of Senka. You can check both those out in the daily stoke store. They're not cheap, but they are handcrafted by

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