The Daily Stoic - We Are All Tied Up Together

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 Wondery'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. music or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic. For each day we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, 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

Starting point is 00:00:45 greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowic.com. We are all tied up together. These are rough times. Then again, times are always rough for someone. If not for us, then for someone else. And according to the Stowics, that means they're rough for someone, if not for us then for someone else. And according to the Stoics, that means they're rough for everyone. What's bad for the hive is bad for the bee marks, really,

Starting point is 00:01:12 is wrote, meaning we're all in this together. Our fates are tied up with one another. This has always been true, but never more so in our lifetimes than during this pandemic. Worldwide quarantines, hypercontagiousness, disease vectors on every continent, all of this together has made that fact undeniable and relevant beyond simply surviving the virus. Homelessness isn't just an unpleasant light on an otherwise beautiful city, for example, it is a roiling public health crisis. Income inequality isn't just an economic debate. In a time where the safety of the many depends on the ability of people to stay home as much

Starting point is 00:01:57 as possible, suddenly it too is a public health crisis. A stoic can't just throw up their hands at these intractable difficult issues. We can't just say, oh, the government has tried and failed. Smart people have tried and failed. It must be impossible to solve. No, a stoic needs to respond like Alan Graham did in Austin, Texas. When Alan saw the rise in homelessness issue in his city, he didn't despair. He started helping people, delivering meals through mobile lows and fishes. But he wasn't content to just service the problem either. He wanted to solve it.

Starting point is 00:02:35 So he created community first village, a 51-acre master plan development that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness. Within the village, there is also community works, which provides micro-interprise opportunities to previously homeless people so they can make a living. They can learn new skills and build lasting relationships. He's personally taken hundreds of people off the streets and he did it with more than just charity He did it the stoic way by empowering them to do it for themselves

Starting point is 00:03:11 We are all in this together each of us has agency in this life even through adversity Even when bad times or tough problems have befallen us our job as citizens and as leaders is to seize our own agency and to help others realize their own. In this, we help them and ourselves. We help the hive by helping the individual and by helping the hive. We protect ourselves and the people we care about most. One person can change history. One person can make a difference for better or for worse. Is this pandemic itself not proof of that? An example of the self-fulfilling prophecy of small thinking, defeatism, and cowardice by leaders across the planet. For thousands of years from Xeno and Clientys

Starting point is 00:03:58 who were quite poor, to Marcus Aurelius and Sennaka who held great power. The Stoics have fought against this tendency to aim small and to give in to hopelessness. They have stood up when things broke down. They have tried to do their best to help make the world a more just place and ease suffering where they saw it. Each of us has to do what we can for ourselves and for our community.

Starting point is 00:04:22 That's not just our job, it's in our own self-interest. And because we at Daily Stoker, big supporters of what Alan is doing over at Community Village, we are donating $100,000 to help Community Village expand to 500 homes and help take even more people off the streets. Other generous donors and volunteers are helping with this mission right now and even matching contributions. If you're interested in finding out more or finding a way to contribute, please go to mlf.org slash community-first. That's mlf.org slash community-first.

Starting point is 00:05:02 And you can donate directly to them and have your contribution matched. 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 add free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts. Hey there listeners! While we take a little break here, I want to tell you about another podcast that I think you'll like. It's called How I Built This, where host Guy Razz talks to founders behind some of the world's biggest and most innovative companies, to learn how they built them from the ground up. Guy has sat down with hundreds of founders behind well-known companies like Headspace, Manduke

Starting point is 00:05:49 Yoga Mats, Soul Cycle, and Codopaxi, as well as entrepreneurs working to solve some of the biggest problems of our time, like developing technology that pulls energy from the ground to heat in cool homes, or even figuring out how to make drinking water from air and sunlight. Together, they discussed their entire journey from day one, and all the skills they had to learn along the way, like confronting big challenges, and how to lead through uncertainty. So if you want to get inspired and learn how to think like an entrepreneur, check out how I built this, wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen early and add free on the Amazon or Wonder yet.

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The Daily Stoic - We Are All Tied Up Together

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