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Saturday, May 13, 2023
Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of May 8-13
The Obstacle Is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do. Its many fans include a former governor and movie star (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a hip hop icon (LL Cool J), and countless coaches and players from winning professional and college sports teams across the country.
Now, get the collectible leather edition of Ryan Holiday's bestselling book for your own library. Each copy also comes with a FREE The Obstacle Is the Way Medallion, a beautiful way to keep in mind the ideas and strategies inside the book. Grab your signed copy here.
PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
"Thanks to the generosity of the Daily Stoic and Daily Dad communities, we raised $32,316 for families living in the Giterama village in Rwanda.
Marcus said the fruit of this life were those acts, the kind we do for the common good: being unselfish, caring for your fellow humans, embracing your good fortune only as a means to lighten the difficulties for those less fortunate. Marcus would be proud."
In a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with actor and singer Alexander Ludwig about how Stoicism can help achieve sobriety. Additionally, they discuss the power of surrendering to the present moment, mastering your craft, the importance of a good mindset, and more:
"The little things are the big things. In life, in your career, in your relationship. In everything…When it comes to drinking, if you're not on top of your sobriety, your addiction is doing pushups in the parking lot. It's getting ready for you."
"I could never precisely name what impelled me to spend time in the South during the summer of 1970. There was no reportorial imperative to any of the places I went at the time I went: nothing "happened" anywhere I was, no celebrated murders, trials, integration orders, confrontations, not even any celebrated acts of God. I had only some dim and unformed sense, a sense which struck me now and then, and which I could not explain coherently, that for some years the South and particularly the Gulf Coast had been for America what people were still saying California was, and what California seemed to me not to be: the future, the secret source of malevolent and benevolent energy, the psychic center."
In a recent videos on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel, Ryan shares how to combat addiction with Stoic ideas. Addiction happens when we cede control to something other than ourselves like caffeine, alcohol, or drugs:
"The reason we're not masters of ourselves is we give that power over to someone or something else. Drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, codependency. That's the tragedy of addiction. Not only is it bad for the person, but often we can become addicted to our relationship with different addicts."
"One of the greatest things a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-Howard W. Hunter
Even if you are no longer with that person, or if that person has deeply hurt or even betrayed you, you must love the person responsible for a good chunk of your kid's DNA or identity. You must love—that's how your kids will know they are loved.
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Join bestselling authors Ryan Holiday and Robert Greene for two special conversations on strategy and philosophy for turbulent times. Tickets to the September 19 event at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles can be purchased here. Tickets to the September 21 event at the Moore Theatre in Seattle can be purchased here (please note, tickets to the postponed March 11 event, will be honored for this show).
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