The Daily Stoic - This Is What Comes Next

Starting point is 00:00:00 Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to The Daily Stoic early and ad free right now. Just join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. Welcome to The Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a Stoic-inspired meditation designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. Each one of these episodes is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them,

Starting point is 00:00:39 to follow in their example, and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. For more, visit dailystoic.com. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. This might sound a little different because I am recording from Las Vegas, Nevada, where I took my youngest son, Jones, on our first solo trip together because I'm giving a talk

Starting point is 00:01:17 to a group of people here in Las Vegas, which is one of my favorite things about what I get to do. Obviously writing is introverted and solitary, but community is a huge part of it for me. And that's basically what today's daily stoic email is about. This is what comes next. You've read meditations, maybe you've even read The Obstacle is the Way. You've highlighted

Starting point is 00:01:47 passages, filled up notebooks, maybe even memorized a few lines. But eventually we all come to the same question. Now, what do I do next? The book ends, the highlighter runs dry, and we feel something stirring, a desire to go deeper, to live the words, not just admire them, to see them in action, to take these ancient ideas and make them a part of who we are every day, especially when it's hard. And actually that's why we made daily stoic life, the community that I'm a part of, that thousands of people all over the world are a part of and that we'd like you to be a part of. The next step in this stoic journey isn't just more reading, it's community, it's

Starting point is 00:02:34 accountability, it's practice. Two thousand years ago, Zeno didn't found stoicism alone in a cave. He taught on a porch, a public space. He gathered students who came to be challenged and sharpened and improved together. And from that porch came a lineage of people who changed the world. Cleanthes, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Cato. These people weren't self-made, they were shaped and sharpened by the people around them. And that process is true today too. Modern Stoics are parents and athletes and entrepreneurs and soldiers and artists, students. They are busy, curious, principled people

Starting point is 00:03:15 who want to do more than just talk about virtue. They want to live it. And they want to do it with others who share that aim. And that's what daily Stoic life is. It's a private global community of people walking the stoic path together, sharing ideas, asking hard questions, holding each other accountable,

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The Daily Stoic - This Is What Comes Next

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