The Daily Stoic - Are You Ready To Be Challenged?

Episode Date: April 29, 2022

Ryan talks about the importance of perpetuating growth.we’re excited to announce the release of the updated edition of The Daily Stoic Challenge Deck that pushes you to challenge yourself all year round.The new and improved Challenge Deck features 40 challenge cards categorized into three themes—the three critical disciplines of Stoicism: Perception, Action, Will. Each card includes challenge instructions, a quote from Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, and a unique and inspiring illustration. Get yours at https://store.dailystoic.com/products/daily-stoic-challenge-deck Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee 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 Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. insight, wisdom necessary for living good 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 dailystoic.com. Are you ready to be challenged? It's very easy to get comfortable, to build up your life exactly how you want it to be, to minimize

inconveniences and hand off the stuff you don't like to do, to find what you enjoy, where you enjoy it, and never leave. A velvet rut is what this is called. It's nice, but the comfort tricks you into thinking that you are not stuck. The Stoics knew that this was a kind of death, that as soon as we stop growing, we start dying. Or at least we become more vulnerable to the swings of fate and fortune. Sennaka talked over and over and over again

about the importance of adversity, of not only embracing the struggle life throws at us, but actively seeking out that difficulty, so that you can be stronger and better and more prepared. A person who has never been challenged, he said, who always gets their way, is a tragic figure. They have no idea what they are capable of. They are not even close to fulfilling their potential. So that leaves you with something to think about today. Are you challenging yourself? Do the choices you make push you or do they help you

atrophy? Are you in a velvet rut? And be honest and then challenge yourself to do better. One way you can challenge yourself of course is with the new 21-day daily stoic freedom challenge that we have for you. The truth is we live in the freest times in the history of the world, but so many of us don't feel free. We are slaves to our vices and devices, and this challenge is designed to help you break out of those shackles. The challenge begins on July 8, which means if you want to sign up, you have to do so before July 7 at 11.59 p.m. because it closes, and then no one else will be allowed in. So much of what we do is, inessential, so much of what we do takes us farther away from where we

want to be, keeps us more imprisoned. And I know this challenge will help you break free. It will help you lead a better life. It will do all those things because I know it has done them for me. The challenges we have done have changed my life in a bunch of ways I participate alongside everyone that's doing it and the stoic wisdom it works And I know it does because I've seen it myself so check it out go to dailystock.com slash challenge Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad-free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today, or you can listen early and ad-free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts.