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Saturday, October 12, 2024
Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of October 7 - October 13
PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
The Stoics say that the greatest empire is command of oneself. Even if Marcus's reign was temporarily in jeopardy, it's clear he never lost control of that. He was—unlike his rash opponent—calm and philosophical. He understood the dangers. He knew mistakes once made could not be unmade. He saw the opportunity for greatness.
In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday shares Stoic strategies to help erase your anxiety (our anxiety medallion is back in stock—get yours here!), including remembering it's an "expensive" habit, preparing for the worst, and reminding ourselves that it's in our control:
"Marcus Aurelius says that we have to remember the thing is not causing us anxiety, we're causing the anxiety within ourselves. It's within us, which means that we can just let it go. We don't have to give ourselves over to it."
In a recent episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with author Wright Thompson on understanding your background and the forces that led him write his new book The Barn:
"It never occurred to me how hard it must have been to curate a nearly completely white life in such a black place. It never occurred to me. This doesn't just happen, so you know, I feel like every other thing I ever wrote was just to put me in the position to write [The Barn] and try to understand the place I thought I knew really well and this place I love, but to truly make sense of it."
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