The Daily Stoic - Find The Space

Episode Date: September 28, 2022

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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 the good life. insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 journal philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowic.com. Find the space. Think about the last time that someone made you upset.

What did they say? What did they do? Now think back. How did you react. What did they say? What did they do? Now think back. How did you react? What did you say? What did you feel? Now think about the situation another way. If when that provocation came you had given yourself space to pause. Could you have controlled your reaction? Could you have stayed sober and calm in the face of their hysterics and yelling? Could you have kept your head about you?" Marcus Aurelia said, you have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this and you will find strength.

Victor Franco talked about how between stimulus and response we have space and in that space we determine not just our response, but who we are. What we're trying to do here is to train ourselves to do that. All this reading, this writing, the stepping back and reflecting on our patterns of behavior, it's for a purpose. It's to improve that default response so that while others give themselves over to their emotions we can keep any destructive emotions in check as they freak out we can calm down. That's the whole point of stoicism to restore the power over your mind to the only person who ought to have it. You. If you're liking this podcast we

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