The Daily Stoic - You Need Less Philosophy

Episode Date: June 19, 2020

"All this reading, all these quotes. This love of learning, our fascination with books. No one is saying it’s a bad thing. Because it isn’t. Still, it’s worth using, from time to time, a quip from Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire on yourself."Learn about that quip in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanholidayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanholiday/Facebook: http://facebook.com/ryanholidayYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. You need less philosophy. All this reading, all these quotes, this love of learning are fascination with books. No one is saying it's a bad thing because it isn't. Still, it's worth using from time to time, equip from Stephen Pressfield's Gates of Fire on yourself. Less philosophy, one brother says to

his more introspective brother and more virtue. It's the same idea in Shakespeare's Hamlet. There are more things in heaven and earth for ratio than are dreamt of in your philosophy. It's epic teedus don't talk about your philosophy, embody it. It's Marcus Aurelius, waste no more time talking about what a good man is like. Be one. Remember the whole point of stoicism is what you do.

It's who you are. It's the act of virtue, not the act of talking about virtue, or reading about it, or writing about it. So today will be a short email because it's not something to think about. It's just a prompt, go do what needs to be done, less philosophy, more virtue. And if you want a reminder of this,

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