The Daily Stoic - What This Philosophy Is Here For

Episode Date: January 6, 2021

“You’ve got problems. We all do. Maybe you’re having a difficult time in your relationship. Or work has worn you down. Or you’re trying to figure out what to do with your life. Maybe the pandemic has shaken you to your foundation and you’re still reeling from the blow. Or things have gone exceedingly well and now you’re overwhelmed by opportunities you never thought possible. Or you’re stuck, or you’re lacking motivation, or you’re terrified by all the uncertainties facing the world as we enter this new decade.”Learn why Stoicism can be a practical antidote for your stress and anxiety, if you let it be, 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 Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wundery'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. on music or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stood 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 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailysteal.com. What this philosophy is here for, you've got problems we all do.

Maybe you're having a difficult time in your relationship, or your work has worn you down. Maybe you're trying to figure out what to do with your life. Maybe the pandemic has shaken you to your foundation and you're still reeling from the blows. Or things have gone exceedingly well and now you're overwhelmed by opportunities you never thought possible.

Or you're stuck, or you're lacking motivation, or you're terrified by all the uncertainties facing the world so we enter this new decade. Who can help you with this? Can anyone? Yes. Would you really want to know what philosophy offers humanity, Sennaka wrote? Philosophy offers counsel.

Philosophy isn't something for the classroom and isn't about abstract questions or debating the existence of free will. Something that helps you with life. Epic Titus is here and he knows about freedom. He's here to show you how to work day and night to attain a Liberated frame of mind instead of a rich old man Cultivate the company of a philosopher. He said Marcus Arelius is here to show you how to accept success without arrogance and setbacks With indifference a grippiness is here to show you how to follow your conscience

How to be the bright thread in the sea of conforming colors and on and on and on. But you have to turn to these counselors, you have to engage. You can't treat philosophy like a side job as Sennaka reminds you. It must be the main thing. Love it like you love your birth mother, Marcus, reminds you. Return to it again and again. Stop drifting, start committing. Find others who have committed to find yourself a cato or a zino to measure yourself against. Find a junius ruse to guess who can give you advice and check in on you. The wisdom is here.

It's here and has been sitting patiently waiting for you for over two thousand years. The question is if you'll listen, if you'll take heed of the council, or will you be like Nero, leaving Senica disappointed again and again proving the idea that a horse can be led to water but not made to drink. So will you drink? Will you listen? If you want some counsel from the ancient Stoics, of course we profile them all in the new book Lives the ancient Stoics, of course, we profile them all in the new book, Lives of the Stoics, the Art of Living from Xenon to Marcus Realius.

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