Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of June 24 - June 30
06-29-2024
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PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
Stoic physics? Who cares? But Stoicism as practical ethics? We can use that. Stoicism that helps us understand what’s outside our control, how to direct our power toward what is in our control? That is a timeless battle that pertains as much to a slave in Rome as it does to a salesman in Paris or a soccer mom in Los Angeles.
In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel, Ryan Holiday discusses how we can use Stoicism to overcome our depression just as Marcus Aurelius did, and how we can avoid tinting our outlooks negatively:
“If we only saw what was awful, if we only saw the worst in people, if we were delusional and naive and we expected everything to be wonderful and amazing all the time, we’re going to get out butts kicked. If our glasses were negative, if our tint on everything was negative and terrible, well, then things are going to be terrible and negative.”
In a popular episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with author Shane Parrish on defining your identity through the habits that you build your life around and the true marks of justice:
“You have to be willing to take a stand with yourself. Nobody’s going to clap for you. Nobody’e even going to understand you. You understand it because you’re involved in the situation and you see it differently, but no one’s going to understand you….You have to be strong enough to just do it.”
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WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:
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“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves—in their depravity—design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.”
