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Saturday, June 8, 2024
Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of June 3 - June 9
Real quick before we get into this week's review … you can still preorder Ryan Holiday's new book Right Thing, Right Now and receive exclusive bonuses, like a signed page from the original manuscript, an annotated bibliography, bonus chapters, and more. We also have some signed, numbered first-editions available, but we're running low (only 10% of our inventory is left!). Head here to get one while supplies still last and learn how to receive those bonuses!
PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
They're going to do what they're going to do—cheat, abuse, hurt, act with injustice—but we're not. We're going to stay at it. We're going to keep going back. We're going to be and do good.
In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel, Ryan Holiday shares the most common misconceptions about Stoicism, such as isolating yourself and being emotionless:
"The Stoics weren't emotionless. There is a part of Stoicism about being less emotional, particularly destructive emotions. But the Stoics weren't repressed, emotionless robots, and if you think that's what Stoicism is going to help you do, you're doing it wrong."
In a popular episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with entrepreneur Kevin Rose on the overlap between Zen Buddhism and Stoicism, the dangers of social media, and learning from your "failures":
"If you're a real entrepreneur, you're gonna fail nine times out of ten. If you realize that failure is just admitting that you've learned something new and you can truly pick out what it is that you learned that's new, and roll that into your next thing, there's always gonna be something to pick out of the rubble."
As Ryan Holiday explains in this week's YouTube video, the main reason the Stoics urge us to improve ourselves is so that, in turn, we are able to go out and improve the world. That's one of the main ideas behind his new book Right Thing, Right Now…
The book is a roadmap on how to become someone of good character, to keep your word, to establish good intentions, to perform good actions both in your own life and out in the world.
And as a natural byproduct of this process, good fortune will find you. That's why the Stoics say character is fate. Because more than any other virtue, it's what determines our destiny.
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