Ryan Holiday

but to use this to his advantage to turn the whole thing around.

And that's what stoicism is.

It's not this passive, resigned, hopeless thing, but it's something deeper than that.

It's something more profound than that.

And it's something we cultivate in our study and in our thinking so that in these big moments, big in the scheme of the world and in our own lives, so that we can use them when it counts.

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

We could use more people like this.

It's a dark world.

It's a world with cheats and cowards, liars and monsters.

It's also a world of busy people with a lot going on, people who don't have time or energy to get involved.

That is why it is such a public service, as we said, to be courageous, as Cato was, as Helvidius was, even as Marcus Aurelius was during the Antonine Plague.

Public service to whom?

To those people who are not cheats and cowards, liars and monsters.

To the busy people, the people who have a lot going on, the people who don't know what they can do, let alone what they ought to do.

When they see someone committed to justice, when they see someone speaking out, when they see someone getting involved, when they see someone doing good, it sends a powerful message.

It shows them that not everyone is dark, that not everyone is afraid.

It gives them an example to follow.

gives them hope, gives them a practical set of things that they can do.

We can always use more leaders.

We are in desperate need of good, courageous people.