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PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
It takes work to be a good person, perhaps more work than it does to be a
great (that is successful or famous) person. But it's the most important work you can do. The world depends on us doing it. Who we are going to be depends on it.
"Courage is risk. It sacrifices commitment, perseverance, truth, determination. When you do the thing others cannot or will not do. When you do the thing that people think you shouldn't or can't do. Otherwise, it's not courage."
In a popular episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with Rick Rubin about working with the unique facets of the artist's ego, the importance of changing up the way that you do things, and tapping into the stream of creativity:
"[Creativity's] like that — there's a frequency of information out there, and when we're lucky we can tap into it. And it's something that we can get better at the more we practice it."
As Jocko Willink mentions, courage is the ability to do what's right, what's needed, and what's true, especially when it matters most. That's the idea behind Courage is Calling, the first book in the Stoic Virtue series, and was followed by Discipline is Destiny, which explored the transformational power of self-control. The third book in the series, Right Thing, Right Now, is all about justice, the most important virtue of all, as Ryan explains in the video below.
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