Life is School. School Is For Life

“Late in his reign, a friend stopped Marcus Aurelius as he was leaving the palace, carrying a stack of books. Finding this to be a surprising sight, the man asked where Marcus was going. He was off to attend a lecture on Stoicism, he said, for ‘learning is a good thing, even for one who is growing old. From Sextus the philosopher I shall learn what I do not yet know.’”Ryan explains why you must always be learning, and launches the new Stoicism 101 course, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. Stoicism 101: Ancient Philosophy For Your Actual Life is a 14 day course designed to teach you what you do not yet know. It includes 14 custom emails delivered daily (over 20,000 words of all-new content, 5 live video sessions with bestselling author Ryan Holiday, printable 14 Day Calendar With custom daily illustrations to track progress, a group Slack channel for accountability and community sharing, and more! Sign ups begin today but close on Sunday, May 2 at 11:59 PM CST. The course will begin on May 3. Sign up now at dailystoic.com/101***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 📢 Share | ⚙️ Manage Subscription

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• 0:04Ryan Holiday?

  Bienvenidos al podcast diario de Stoic, donde cada día traemos un pasaje de sabiduría antigua diseñado para ayudarte a encontrar fuerza, visión y sabiduría en la vida cotidiana. Cada uno de estos pasajes está basado en la filosofía de 2000 años que ha guiado a algunos de los mayores hombres y mujeres de la historia. Para más, puedes visitarnos en dailystoic.com.

• 0:26Ryan Holiday?

  "La vida es escuela y la escuela es la vida." "A la tarde de su reino, un amigo detuvo a Marcus Aurelius cuando estaba dejando la palace, llevando una caja de libros. Encontrando esto a ser una vista sorprendente, el hombre pregunta dónde está Marcus. "Estaba en camino de asistir a una lección sobre Stoicismo", dijo. "Porque el aprendizaje es una buena cosa, incluso para uno que está en edad de crecer. Desde Sextus, el filósofo, Marcus dice: "Aprenderé aquello que aún no sé". Es increíble, incluso como el hombre más poderoso del mundo, Marcus todavía estaba tomando sus libros y avanzando a la clase.

• 1:07Ryan Holiday?

  De hecho, Sextus era solo uno de los maestros de filosofía de Marcus. En el libro uno de Meditaciones solo, él listó los nombres y lo que aprendió de seis otros maestros de filosofía, incluyendo uno de un rival y otro, Rústicus, a quien Marcus agradece específicamente por introducirlo en las lecciones de Epictetus y le emitió una copia de su propia biblioteca. "No puedes encontrar un filósofo estoico, o en realidad cualquier persona inteligente, que no trate su estudio de filosofía con este tipo de seriedad de vida." Zeno se lava en Atenas y comienza a estudiar bajo Krates, un famoso filósofo athenio. Luego, Clianthes estudia bajo Zeno, no solo durante unos años, sino durante décadas.

• 1:53Ryan Holiday?

  Y Cato era famoso por sus desayunos filosóficos, donde invitó a las más inteligentes y más sabios de la mundo antigua para discutir las grandes cuestiones filosóficas con las que estaba luchando. Incluso en su último almuerzo, antes de su famoso suicidio, estaba discutiendo el mismo impulso... ...of life and death, good and bad, with philosophy teachers. Epictetus was taught philosophy by Musonius Rufus before becoming a teacher himself of both the Emperor Hadrian, whom he instructed directly, and Marcus Aurelius, who he reached with his writings. Part of being a philosopher is being a lifelong learner. In life, school is never out for summer, and there is no spring or winter break.

• 2:36Ryan Holiday?

  You can never be too old or too good at what you do. No, school is life, and life is school. Learning is a daily thing, wisdom, an endless pursuit. You never arrive, you never fill up, you never graduate. Because the world is always revealing new lessons, even in the oldest of texts. Therefore, Seneca writes, "There is no one more foolish than one who stops learning. Even if you are one of the best at what you do," he says, "you should keep learning to the end of your life." And he then points out one of the great things about learning, why it is so special and unlike any other pursuit. It's something that we often overlook.

• 3:19Ryan Holiday?

  Wisdom is one of the few things that you can count on in this life, in the sense that it's one of the few areas of growth or success that we have control over. Money, titles, influence, authority, power, admiration, fame, these are great, but for the most part, they're outside of our control. They're up to other people. Something can stop us from achieving them. But wisdom, learning, studying, Seneca says, "This does not fall upon us by chance." "How much progress shall I make?" he said, "Just as much as you try to make. So why do you wait? Wisdom comes haphazardly to no man."

• 4:03Ryan Holiday?

  And that's why we created Stoicism 101: Ancient Philosophy for your actual life. This course, Stoicism 101, is a 14-day course designed to teach you what you do not yet know. Whether you're a beginner at Stoicism, or you've been studying it for years, there is something to be gained by getting up and going to school, because learning, as Marcus Aurelius said, is a good thing. And as part of that, we're doing something we haven't done with our previous courses. Me, the author of The Daily Stoic, Lives of the Stoic, and the narrator of this podcast that I'm grateful you listened to, I am going to be the live instructor of this course. In five live video sessions, which we're calling "Office Hours",

• 4:46Ryan Holiday?

  you'll have the opportunity to learn from me, to ask questions. It's not quite college, but it's better than reading by yourself, and I'm really looking forward to engaging with all of you. It's going to be 14 emails delivered over the two weeks, almost 20,000 words of content, and you're going to learn from the famous Stoics. You're going to learn the things a Stoic does, the things a Stoic doesn't do, what sets Stoicism apart from other philosophies, the key components of a Stoic's ideal day, the Stoic's secret to success, the Stoic's secrets to resilience, the Stoic's secrets to productivity, and how a Stoic masters their emotions, and a whole lot more. Look, the course is not free, but lectures are usually not free,

• 5:29Ryan Holiday?

  but this course is far less than the tuition of even one Intro to Philosophy class, even at your local community college, to say nothing of what you'd pay to get this from the Ivy League. But look, as a participant in The Daily Stoic, Stoicism 101: Ancient Philosophy for your actual life, you're going to learn all you need to know about Stoicism. You'll learn it from me, someone who's been thinking and writing about Stoicism for more than 15 years, who's had the opportunity to help people put it into practice, everywhere from the NFL to the Special Forces. You're going to be able to benefit from my synthesis of all this information over the years. This is going to be a live course. All the participants will join the course together and move through together at the same time. Registration is now officially open. It will close on Sunday, May 11.

• 6:12Ryan Holiday?

  Second at 11:59 PM CST, and the course will begin on May 3rd. This is different than our normal courses, but I'd really love to have you join us. Check it out, we think it's going to be one of our best. I hope to have you join me. Just go to dailystoic.com/101. That's dailystoic.com/101. Or just click the link in the show notes, and I'm excited to talk to you soon.