The Daily Stoic - It’s About Infusing It Into Your DNA

Episode Date: January 5, 2021

“Marcus Aurelius read Epictetus… a lot. We know this because Meditations is proof of it. Almost every page has some direct quote or allusion to Epictetus. We also find, upon deeper inspection, references to the works of Panaetius, Chrysippus, the plays of Euripides, Zeno and countless other philosophers.”Ryan explains the importance of lingering on great work so that it becomes a part of you, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.Great news! The Daily Stoic is $1.99 as an ebook right now (UK discounted too)!***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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Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailysteadout.com. It's about infusing it into your DNA. Marcus Aurelius read Epic Titus, a lot. We know this because meditations is proof of it. Almost every page has some direct quote or illusion to Epic Titus. We also find, upon deeper inspection, references to the works works of panateus, chrycipus, the plays of europeides, zeno, and countless other philosophers. How does someone develop recall like that, by repetition and practice?

Although Marcus Aurelius never refers to Seneca, it's clear that he had absorbed a piece of advice from that Stoic too. We must linger upon a limited number of master thinkers and digest their works, Seneca wrote, if you would derive ideas that should win firm hold in your mind. Over and over the Stoics poured over the same texts, so the ideas could take firm hold, so they could be absorbed, so it could become muscle memory infused into their DNA. Once?

Ha! That is not enough. It was about reading and rereading, writing, journaling, discussing, reflecting, experiencing, as Epic Titus commanded, every day and night keep thoughts like these at hand, write them, read them aloud, talk to yourself, and others about them. Marcus would later talk about how the philosopher is one with their weapons, like a boxer more than a swordsman. A boxer just clenches their fists. A fencer has to pick something up. And that's what we are trying to do as we study. We're trying to create a practice,

get in the reps so that it fuses us with our philosophy, so we become one with it. Inserting it into our DNA so that we are forever changed by it. Make that your goal this year. It's not about skimming. It's not about having done it once. It's not about getting the gist of it as Marcus derided. It's about making it part of your life in your mind.

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