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The Daily Stoic
This Is When You Use It
This Is When You Use It

This Is When You Use It

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Ryan Holiday
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Feb 22, 2022
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Welcome to the Daily store podcast. Where each day, we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength insight and wisdom everyday life. Each. One of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy. That is guided some of History's Greatest men and women for more. You can visit us a least out.com. This is when you
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use it.
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Julia, Baird was at her lowest point. Her heart was broken. She was barely eating, like all of us, when we've been down, when we doubted ourselves. She found herself saying, I just don't know how I'm going to get through this as she recounts in her beautiful book, phosphorescence Baird's. Therapist told her that a similar moment in his own life. He had despaired he doubted, he could get through it. Then a mentor, grabbed him by the proverbial shoulders, and gave him a dose of what
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Is essentially the core of stoic philosophy. It is now that everything you have been given in your life matters. You told them, this is what you draw on, your parents, your friends, your work, your books, everything you have ever been, told everything you have ever learned. This is when you use that. Remember the stoics believe that we were always training and always supposed to be training? The idea was so that when life or the future, hit us with something.
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We'd be in a position to reply, like that, to recognize that everything we've ever experienced and learned up to that point Was preparing us for this very moment. And when Marcus Aurelius talked about using obstacles as fuel. This is also what he meant. Everything that happens to us in life. Good or bad is shaping us, informing us literally and figuratively for the future that is if we choose to accept the information or the lesson for the challenge, so whatever.
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You're dealing with today. Whatever. You've been hit with today. You must understand. This is it. This is the moment to draw on. All of that training now is the time to use it and understand this. Also some time in the distant future after you
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survive this and you will you will draw on. This experience also repeat ad infinitum,
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exciting news. I was just told by my publisher that my
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book. The obstacle is the way.
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Way the Timeless art turning. Trials into
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Triumph is 199 everywhere. You get your ebooks. I'm not sure how long the price drop will last but now is the cheapest, the book will probably ever be if you haven't read it. If you want to give it as a gift. If you also want a digital copy,
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whatever.
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Pretty awesome. 199, you know, this is a book that sold now. Well, over a million copies in 40 languages. It's been used by Super Bowl winning teams, Special Forces operators.
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Members of Congress world leaders, and it's less than two bucks. So if you want to get the obstacle is the way as an e-book. I think it's only in the US, but check the link here in the show notes or just go to Amazon, or just go to Amazon or wherever you get your ebooks. Also related news. If you have more than two dollars, we have a leather-bound edition of the obstacle is the way in which you can check out in the daily stoic store. Just going to store that day least.
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Dot-com. It's a Premium Edition should last a little bit longer than the hardcover. Go to daily stoic.com store and you can also get me to sign your leather-bound Edition or any of your editions of the
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book. Of course, we have some other cool. Obstacle is the way
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merch, check it out. Obstacle is the way as an e-book is just 199 for a very limited time, only check it
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