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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.
Stoicism, I think, like Marcus Aurelius's meditations is so informative on so many levels. I mean, here you have somebody who was literally an emperor and he's writing this journal in a tent in a battlefield. So his perspective is amazing. And he once wrote that the soul becomes dyed the color of its thoughts. And I think about that all the time.
The cost to me of living in a way that's inconsistent and not aligned with what feels right, what models the right thing for my children, what feels inherently true to me, it's too expensive.
I mean, look, here's the thing. She's totally right. That's exactly what Marcus really said. That's exactly what stoicism is about. She's just not living or acting in accordance with it in any way. If you did, you'd have an intervention with your dad, whose life would be died with his horrible, negative, mean, bullying thoughts all the time.
Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN. Don't talk to me that way.
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Chapter 2: How does Ryan describe the importance of Stoicism in daily life?
You know, Marcus Aurelius wasn't just saying these things for his health. He wasn't just quoting random bits of stoic wisdom. He was trying to live it, right? Trying to live it, trying to put it into practice. That's the whole point of meditations. As I said, he's fighting to be the person that philosophy tried to make him, not performatively, but in his private journal.
These were reminders to himself to do better. And yes, sometimes they're about directing your thoughts properly, but most of the reminders and meditations are ethical reminders. Reminders to be a better person, to follow the Stoic principles, to put them into practice, to be a better person than his job and his wealth would let him get away with being.
Marcus Aurelius is the most powerful person in the world. And he wrote obsessively about what that responsibility meant, about justice, about not letting power corrupt you. Stoicism is not a brand, it's a practice.
And it demands honesty, it demands self-awareness, it demands accountability, it demands doing the right thing even when it costs you something, even when it's painful, even when it would mean, I don't know, confronting your horrible family members. So no, quoting Marcus Aurelius doesn't make you stoic, doesn't make you wise. You have to live and act with integrity.
You have to be involved in public life in a way that is beyond reproach, in a way that contributes rather than extracts value from the government.
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