The Daily Stoic - This Is What You Have Been Working For

Episode Date: December 16, 2020

“A quarterback can spend thousands of hours in the gym, watching footage, and working on their throwing accuracy. But ultimately, what matters is what they do on Sunday. What matters is what they do in the 4th quarter. Surgeons can study pre-med, go to med school, spend years in residency, and read every scientific journal ever published. But ultimately, what matters is whether they can perform in the operating room. A musician can practice chords, study the greats, work with the best instructor, master every scale. But ultimately, what matters is how they move the audience.”Ryan talks about the importance of not only learning from what is happening, but applying what you’ve learned, 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.

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wondery's podcast business wars. And in our new season, Walmart must fight off target. The new discounter that's both savvy and fashion forward. Listen to business wars on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. music or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic. For each day we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2000old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at alistair.com. This is what you've been working for.

A quarterback can spend thousands of hours in the gym watching film and working on their throwing accuracy, but ultimately what matters is what they do on Sunday. What matters is what they do in the fourth quarter. Surgeons can study pre-med, go to med school, spend years in residency, and read every scientific journal ever published. But ultimately what matters is whether they can perform in the operating room.

A musician can practice chords, study the grades, work with the best instructor, master every scale, but ultimately, what matters is how they move the audience. Epic Titus' teacher, Musoneus Rufus, talked about how philosophy was like any profession. You can pour hours into mastering the precepts and acquiring the theoretical knowledge, but the mark of a great philosopher is how they perform when hardship comes. Are they courageous in facing the things which seem dreadful to the average person? Are they temperate amid circumstances that trigger most? Are they just when others are greedy and selfish? Are they wise

in their actions or just in their speech? You've been reading this email for years, you've memorized most of meditations, you've journaled every morning, you've learned the stories of Zeno, Shipwreck and Kato's suicide, you've mastered the precepts, you have the theoretical knowledge, you studied the greats, and now it's game time, this is not a drill, you're in the operating room, you're on stage, hardship is here, will you be up to it? A pandemic is a moment like all moments where each and every one of the four stoic virtues is called for. You can't panic, you can't be afraid, you can't hoard supplies or binge watch TV, you must care for others, you must support the

frontline responders, you must learn from what's happening, apply what you have already learned. Virtue is not simply theoretical knowledge, Musonea said, a man who wishes to become good, must also be earnest and zealous in applying these principles. Well, you've put the hours in. Now is your chance to make your mark. Show us Virtue. Show us a great philosopher. to make your mark, show us for you, show us a great philosopher. Most of you already know this, but this daily podcast is based on the email we send out every day for Daily Stoke. If you aren't already subscribed and wanna check it out,

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