This Is The Day | How Stoicism Can Make You Happier
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🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This is what we tell ourselves: Someday I will write my book. Someday I will travel abroad. Someday I will learn how to play guitar.
But someday soon, you will no longer be able to say, “someday…”
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“A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.” – Seneca
The Stoics believed in living a virtuous life, one with the potential to bring us personal happiness and fulfillment. And that’s one of the reasons a person may choose to live after their fashion. After all, what good is philosophy if it doesn’t ultimately bring us happiness?
But in Stoic philosophy, it’s the pursuit of virtue and good character that allows us to get there. For the Stoic, the pursuit of virtue is the pursuit of happiness. If we can live virtuously, a good life will follow.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom |
| 0:08.4 | designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:11.4 | On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual |
| 0:16.8 | lives. |
| 0:17.8 | Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:25.7 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon |
| 0:30.1 | music. |
| 0:31.1 | Download the app today. |
| 0:40.5 | This is the day. |
| 0:43.8 | This is what we tell ourselves that someday I'll write my book someday. |
| 0:47.1 | I will travel abroad someday. |
| 0:48.4 | I will learn how to play a guitar. |
| 0:50.9 | But someday soon you will no longer be able to say someday. |
| 0:54.8 | So we must adopt the mindset of the great Stephen Pressfield, and his latest book, Put Your |
| 0:59.3 | Ass Where Your Heart Wants To Be, which he talked about recently on the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:03.9 | Pressfield writes, Here's my frame of mind as I sit down to work. |
| 1:09.8 | This is the day. |
| 1:10.8 | He says, There is no other day. |
| 1:12.3 | This is the day. |
| 1:13.3 | There is no other time. |
| 1:14.3 | Today is the Super Bowl. |
| 1:16.6 | Today is the day I give birth. |
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