The Daily Stoic - This is the Most Important Virtue

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wundery's podcast business wars. And in our new season, Walmart must fight off target, the new discounter that's both savvy and fashion forward. Listen to business wars on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Starting point is 00:00:36 Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailysteal.com. This is the most important virtue. We have known forever to master anything one first must master themselves, one's emotions, one's thoughts, one's actions. From Aristotle to Herocletus, St. Thomas Aquinas to the Stoics from the Iliad to the Bible, in Buddhism and Confucius and Islam, the ancients have had many words and many symbols for this timeless law of the universe. I.S.C.I.P.L.I.N.E. Discipline.

Starting point is 00:01:25 Santa could try to instill it in the rulers he advised that the most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. Marcus really said, love the discipline you know and let it support you. Cicero called the virtue of temperance the polish of life. Discipline, it's the thing that makes it possible to achieve greatness as well as bring greatness to whatever it is that you do however humble. I'm Ryan Holliday You know me and that I deliver the reading of these daily stoic messages each day and for the last five or six years

Starting point is 00:01:56 That's what I've been doing this daily message podcast email I I don't know if I've ever really broken this third wall and said, Hey, I'm Ryan, but that's what I'm doing now. I'm Ryan Holiday and my new book, Discipline is Destiny, the power of self control is now up for preorder. And in the book, I talk about this idea, this idea from the Stokes that discipline is the most important virtue without it, without self control, without boundaries, we risk not only failing to meet our full potential in jeopardizing what we've achieved, but we ensure misery and shame. And what was true in 300 BC is true today, in a world of

Starting point is 00:02:35 far more temptations and excess, this ancient idea, the second of the cardinal virtues. It's more urgent than ever. And look, I would love for you to consider pre-ordering the new book, Discipline Estesia, because I've worked very, very hard on it and I'd love for you to read it. Pre-ordering makes a huge difference for authors and bookstores as we try to get a book off the ground. And it'd mean a lot to me if you could support this book. And to make it worthwhile, I put together a ton of awesome bonuses, including sign copies, signed pages from drafts of the manuscript as I wrote it, as well as two full bonus chapters and a Spotify playlist I use while writing the book.

Starting point is 00:03:11 Discipline is destiny officially releases on 927. It's already gotten some rave reviews Admiral James Stavritis, whose books I've raved about here, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. He called it a powerful case for the virtues and the values that leaders must live by in the modern world. And Idouk said, it's a brisk and absorbing read and Stephen Pressfield just told me that he read the whole thing straight through and really loved it, said he can't recommend it enough, especially the last chapter. If you want to take their word for it or my word for it, I'd love for you to pre-order discipline is destiny right now. But most of all, I want you to practice this most essential of all virtues self-discipline. And you can do that at dailystoic.com slash pre-order. Check that out. All the awesome bonuses are there. Daily Stoic early and ad-free on Amazon Music,

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The Daily Stoic - This is the Most Important Virtue

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