Before You Go Anywhere, Remember This | Righteousness Is Beautiful

“The people on your flight tomorrow will be slow and rude. They will recline their seats into you. They will clog the aisles. They will watch videos on their phone without earbuds in. They will fight you for the armrests, even though they obviously belong to the person in the middle seat. They will take too long in the bathroom. And they will do ungodly things in there while they’re at it. They will take forever to deplane; they will not care that half the plane have connections to make.”Ryan discusses what is in your control, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. This episode is brought to you by Eight Sleep. The new Pod Pro Cover by Eight Sleep is the most advanced solution on the market for thermoregulation. It pairs dynamic cooling and heating with biometric tracking. You can add the Cover to any mattress, and start sleeping as cool as 55°F or as hot as 110°F. Go to eightsleep.com/dailystoic to check out the Pod Pro Cover and save $150 at checkout.***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 a otro episodio del podcast Daily Stoic. El jueves hacemos doble trabajo, no solo leyendo nuestra meditación diaria, sino también leyendo un pasaje del libro "The Daily Stoic", 366 meditaciones sobre la sabiduría, perseverancia y la arte de vivir, que escribí con mi maravillosa coautora y colaborador, Stephen Hanselman. Así que hoy os daremos una rápida meditación de uno de los estoicos, de Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, luego mi análisis y luego os enviamos al mundo a hacer lo mejor posible para convertir estas palabras en obras.

• 0:42Ryan Holiday?

  Antes de ir a ningún lugar, recordad esto: "Las personas en su vuelo mañana serán lentos y ruidosos. Se reclinarán su asiento en ustedes. Se les cogerán las estaciones. Se verán videos en su teléfono sin audífonos. Se lucharán por el respaldo, aunque obviamente pertenecen a la persona en el asiento medio. Se tardarán demasiado en el baño. Se tardará para siempre en desplazarse. No se preocuparán de que tengan una conexión a hacer. Peor, incluso no se llevarán una máscara. Hacerán todas estas cosas y más. ¿Entienden eso? Ninguna cantidad de frustración, maldición, ansiedad, impatiente y rojas visturas lo corregirá. Es así como es. ¿Por qué son así? Son así porque son personas flotantes, porque no vuelan tanto como ustedes,

• 1:26Ryan Holiday?

  porque están lidiando con su propia ansiedad y preocupaciones, porque tal vez han tenido un sueño de un viaje hasta ahora, porque tienen su propia conexión a hacer. Son así porque no pueden decir lo bueno de lo malo, como decía Marcus Aurelius de las personas ruidosas en su propio tiempo, porque no saben mejor, porque no han tenido el entrenamiento o el despertar que ustedes han tenido. No podemos dejar que esto nos llegue. No podemos dejar que ellos nos implicen en la maldad. "Sentir ira hacia alguien", escribió Marcus Aurelius, "es darle la espalda a él y esto es innato. También está debajo de usted. Es un signo de que no se ha preparado adecuadamente para la experiencia que fue y sigue siendo bastante predecible. Volar es un dolor. Estar atrapado en una tubería de metal fina con una colección diversa de humanidad

• 2:09Ryan Holiday?

  bajo condiciones de estrés, no va a ser divertido. No va a sacar el mejor de las personas. No se puede controlar eso. Pero se puede controlar si saca el peor en usted.

• 2:24Ryan Holiday?

  Righteousness is beautiful. This is today's entry in the Daily Stoic. 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by yours truly. Then what makes a beautiful human being? Isn't it the presence of human excellence? Young man, if you wish to be beautiful, then work diligently at human excellence. And what is that? Observe those whom praise you without prejudice. The just or the unjust? The just. The even-tempered or the undisciplined? The even-tempered. The self-controlled or the uncontrolled? The self-controlled. In making yourself that kind of person, you will become beautiful.

• 3:06Ryan Holiday?

  To the extent you ignore these qualities, you will be ugly, even if you use every trick in the book to appear beautiful. That's from Epictetus's Discourses 3:1. Contemporary notions of beauty are ridiculous. Our standards for what's attractive are incredibly unstoic in what we prize and extol, things people have almost no control over. High cheekbones, complexion, height, piercing eyes. Is it really beautiful to win the genetic lottery? Or should beauty be contingent on the choices, actions, and attributes we develop? An even keel, a sense of justice, a commitment to duty? These are beautiful traits, and they go much deeper than appearances.

• 3:50Ryan Holiday?

  Today, you can choose to be without prejudice, to act with justice, to keep an even keel, to be in control of yourself, even when that means dedication and sacrifice. And if that's not beautiful, what is? And I think if we really summarize what Epictetus is saying, he's like, beautiful people make beautiful choices, or that beautiful choices make beautiful people. We tend to get so obsessed with superficial things, but we know that beneath that superficiality, because we see this in people, there's a real ugliness. Whereas Gertrude Stein says, "There's no there there." Underneath, there's nothing there. What we admire, what we should be striving for, what makes us truly attractive are those

• 4:35Ryan Holiday?

  other traits, that other work that we do, right? It's the whole of one's personality, the whole of one's set of standards, the whole of the decisions and actions that you take in your life.

• 4:50Ryan Holiday?

  So again, it's easy to look in the mirror and/or to look at someone from across the room and, you know, sort of make a snap judgment. They're ugly, I'm beautiful, I'm ugly, they're beautiful. But the truth is, the picture is fuller than that. And the Stoics would say, unless it's in our control, there's not really anything to admire. The fact that this person was born to a great name, they would say is far less impressive than the fact that you turned your ordinary name into a great one by the actions that you took by living with those four virtues of courage, justice, temperance, and wisdom. Beautiful choices, that's what makes a beautiful person. You have to remember that, you have to believe that. It's the whole philosophy right there, right?

• 5:34Ryan Holiday?

  In that way, Epictetus is just as great as Marcus Aurelius, despite one having a very glamorous position and the other not. And I would argue that Epictetus is far greater as a slave and does far more for the world and lives a more beautiful life than many, many, many rich, beautiful Romans whom we've forgotten, or even those that we have remembered, right? Cato is ultimately greater than Caesar because of the more beautiful, temperate, virtue-driven decisions that he makes. Make beautiful choices, you will be beautiful. It's as simple as that. Thanks so much for listening. If you could leave a review for the podcast, we'd really appreciate it.

• 6:18Ryan Holiday?

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