Daily Stoic Sundays: This Is Your Most Important Job

“How do we emulate the great parents of history? How do we work on improving ourselves at this essential job? The one for which we are given next to no training, for which many of us had less than ideal models for in our own childhood?”Ryan talks about the importance of preparation for the role of a parent—and discusses a great way you can make yourself ready for this critical job. Sign up for The Stoic Parent, Daily Stoic’s newest course on how to be the best parent to your kids, today: http://dailystoic.com/stoicparentThis episode is brought to you by Four Sigmatic. Four Sigmatic is a maker of mushroom coffee, lattes, elixirs, and more. Their drinks all taste amazing and they've full of all sorts of all-natural compounds and immunity boosters to help you think clearly and live well. Visit http://foursigmatic.com/stoic to get 15% off your order.***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 @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanholidayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanholiday/Facebook: http://facebook.com/ryanholidayYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee 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 la edición de fin de semana del Día Stoico. Cada viernes, te traemos una meditación inspirada por los antiguos estoicos, algo que puede ayudarte a vivir los cuatro virtudes estoicas de coraje, justicia, sabiduría y temperance. Y aquí, en el fin de semana, nos sumamos a un profundismo en esos mismos temas. entrevistamos filósofos estoicos, nos reflejamos, nos preparamos, pensamos profundamente sobre los problemas desafiantes de nuestro tiempo y trabajamos en esta filosofía de una manera que es más posible aquí cuando no estamos ruidos de trabajar o de llevar a los niños a la escuela, cuando tenemos el tiempo para pensar, para ir de un caminato, para sentarnos con nuestros diarios

• 0:48Ryan Holiday?

  y para prepararnos para lo que traerá el futuro.

• 0:53Ryan Holiday?

  "Este es tu trabajo más importante." "Algunas personas disfrutan de mejorar sus campos, dijo Epictetus. Algunas personas encuentran un gran placer en ganar más dinero o ganar fama. Pero Epictetus, él se alegra de mejorar a sí mismo día a día." Pero todavía, incluso aquí, podemos perder el punto. Epictetus no estaba hablando de conseguir mejores abes o de dominar la literatura obscure. Él estaba hablando de convertirse en una mejor persona en trabajar en las cosas que realmente importan. Primero y antes de todo, entre las cosas que realmente importan para los estoicos, era ser un buen padre. ¿Dónde más alguien tiene tal oportunidad enorme de impactar el futuro que al criar a sus hijos bien? Epictetus adoptó a un niño y lo crió.

• 1:37Ryan Holiday?

  Cato entrenó a su hija Portia en filosofía y esperaba tanto de ella como de sus hijos. Musonius Rufus explicó de manera más hermosa lo que significaba el padre para los estoicos. Él dijo: "¡Qué espectáculo es cuando un esposo o esposa con muchos hijos se ve con estos niños rodeados de ellos! Ninguna procesión llevada por los dioses es tan hermosa para ver, y ningún ritual realizado solemnemente para una ocasión sagrada es tan digno de ser observado como es un coro de muchos niños guiando a sus padres a través de la ciudad, guiándolos por la mano o de otra manera cuidándolos. ¿Qué es más hermoso que este espectáculo? ¿Qué es más digno de emulación que estos padres?" So that's really the question.

• 2:20Ryan Holiday?

  How do we emulate these great parents of history, these philosophers? How can we work on improving ourselves at this essential job? The one for which we are given next to no training? The one for which many of us had less than ideal models in our own childhood? Being a father isn't just a thing you get recognized for with a card one day in mid-June each year. It's an occupation, a profession, a place to practice philosophy every single minute. So too with motherhood, so too with being a grandparent. Like the rest of life, it's something you have to choose a Cato for. It's something you have to be intentional about.

• 3:00Ryan Holiday?

  It's a place that calls for all four of the Stoic virtues: courage, temperance, justice, wisdom. It calls for all these things and more. It calls for them when we're tired. It calls for them when we're hungry. It calls for them when we're in the car. It calls for them every single minute of every single day. It's a thing we have to concentrate on like a Roman, as Marcus said, and engage with it like it's the last thing we do in our lives, because who knows? It may well be. So on Father's Day, we invite you to check out not just DailyDad.com, our free daily email and podcast inspired by ancient wisdom, but we invite you to check out our newest

• 3:41Ryan Holiday?

  course, The Stoic Parent, to give you tools and support that you need to become the parent you want to be. It's 10 actionable, practical meditations and prescriptive commandments for parenting. Rules you can live by and teach by for as long as you are lucky to have this job as dad or as mom. All of these lessons are going to be pulled from the best of Stoic wisdom, wisdom the Stoics have been meditating on for thousands of years. You'll get daily action plans, custom audio companions, workbooks, and much more. You'll get hours of audio interviews, too. So check out DailyStoic.com/Parenting for more. And of course, Happy Father's Day to everyone out there.