BONUS | Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump
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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.
You're just a lightweight.
Gavin Newsom. has admitted that he has learning disabilities. Ilhan Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. So he's totally incoherent.
And he goes, ah, thank you. Thank you. I'll give you another great Marx-relius quote, Ivanka. He says, waste no more time talking about what a good person is like. Just fucking be one. Look, this is just obviously incredibly cringe, the sort of performative philosophy, the popularity of stoicism with people who have... No idea that this is a philosophy built around an ethical core, which justice is the true north of the philosophy. I'll tell you what stoicism is not. Stoicism is not a way for you not to have to care about the consequences of the things that are happening around you. It's not a way to turn inward and turn away from other people. from what's happening in the world, from not having to care.
It's not, oh, I'm just going to think nice thoughts so I can have a nice life. I'm not going to let critics or criticism penetrate because then I'd have to actually make some changes or take some accountability or stare in the face the reality of what I have been complicit in, what I am responsible for. Ivanka Trump quoting Mark Surrealist. I mean, that's as eye-rolly as you can get. The only similarity you have with the Aurelius family is that you're a communist and so are your shitty brothers. Look, nobody loves seeing people talk about Mark Surrealist and stoicism more than me. This is what gets me out of bed in the morning. My life's work is getting people to pick up meditation. So that's awesome.
I love to see it. Also, this is as cringe as it possibly gets because it's not real and it's totally missing the point.
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