The Secret To Climbing The Mountain

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• 0:03Ryan Holiday?

  Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom, designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

• 0:29Ryan Holiday?

  The secret to climbing the mountain. The task before us is enormous. The problems we face seem overwhelming. The change we seek will not be easy. What do we do? Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of the band Iron Maiden, and we have a great video of some Stoic lessons from the band over at YouTube. I'll link to that. He once found himself sitting across from Robert Plant at a studio in Hilversum, a city in the Netherlands. "I'm having so much trouble with the album," Plant confessed. "It's like a mountain, and I don't know where to start." Bruce Dickinson looked at him as he sipped his tea and said, "Try the steps." "The steps?" Plant asked. "Yes, the steps in the side of the mountain," Dickinson explained. "That's what they're there for."

• 1:13Ryan Holiday?

  "It's both mystical and straightforward. You climb a mountain one step at a time. You overcome obstacles little by little, action by action," Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations. You can check out our favorite translation. We have a leather edition. He says, "No one can stop you from that." Not only can't they stop you, you often find there are stairs right there, designed for your use. So use them.