The Daily Stoic - Who Is In Charge?

Episode Date: June 7, 2022

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Who is in charge? And one of his letters, Sennaka describes himself as a cold water enthusiast. It would celebrate the new year by taking a plunge into the canal, just as naturally as I would set out to do some reading or writing, he said, or compose a speech, I would inaugurate the first of the year with a plunge to the Virgo aqueduct. But then he gives the real reason for his cold plunges. Body should be treated more rigorously, he says, so that it may not be disobedient to the mind. There's a lot of interesting research about the health benefits of taking cold showers and going for a run and lifting weights. But the real reason to do these things is far more simple. It's to make a statement about who is in charge, who is in charge, the courageous side of you or the cowardly side, the side that doesn't flinch,

it discomfort or the side that desires to always become comfortable. The side that does the hard things, or the side that takes the easy way. We challenge ourselves not to improve our immune system, not to increase our metabolism, not to reduce anxiety. Those things might be nice and salary benefits, but they are not the point. The purpose is to become the kind of person that can do it. How can you expect to do big things that scare you, that scare others? You haven't practiced them.

Why do you think you can endure the cold reception of a bold idea if you can't even endure a cold water? How can you trust that you'll step forward when the stakes are high, when you regularly don't do that, when the stakes are low? What gives you any confidence that you'll do the hard thing when people are watching, when you can't do it, even when no one is watching. The person who does something scary every day is less fearful than someone who can't.

The person who does something difficult every day is tougher than someone who doesn't. And that's what a bunch of people have learned taking our challenges over the years, but that's also why we built out the Daily Stoic Challenge deck, deck of cards that helps challenge you all here, round. We first launched this a couple years ago. Now it's new and improved. It's 40 challenge cards developed into three themes, built around those three key Stoic disciplines, perception, action, will. In each card, you can pull it out each morning or multiple times a day, whatever version you want to play the game with, you can play with friends. Anyways, you pull out a challenge

card and it's got a challenge for you, instructions, a quote from a stoic, and then a unique, inspiring illustration, and every day you're forced to wrestle with that question. Who's in charge? The weak side of me or the side that's going to do what the card says. It pushes you in little ways, so the big ways stop seeming quite so big. So out of character, you minimize fear by making the act of overcoming it routine. You test yourself to prepare for the test of life. It do something difficult, scary, something good every day. And you can check it out with the Daily Still Challenge deck. I'll link to it in today's

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