You Come From This

You have it pretty good. We all do. You have modern conveniences. So it is easy to get a little spoiled…it’s also easy to assume that you are spoiled and soft. 📚 History Matters by David McCullough https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/history-matters?_pos=1&_sid=0f11e9ac6&_ss=r 🎟️ DAILY STOIC LIVE https://www.dailystoiclive.com/| Ryan Holiday is coming to a city near you https://www.dailystoiclive.com/! Grab tickets here https://www.dailystoiclive.com/ | https://www.dailystoiclive.com/ 🎙️AD-FREE https://dailystoic.supercast.com/| Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing toThe Daily Stoic Premium https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content:https://dailystoic.supercast.com/ 🎥 VIDEO EPISODES https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic/videos| Watch the video episodes onThe Daily Stoic YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic/videos:https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic/videos ✉️ FREE STOIC WISDOM https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail | Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email athttps://dailystoic.com/dailyemail See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

• 0:00Ryan Holiday

  Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

• 0:14Ryan Holiday

  You come from this. You have it pretty good. We all do. We have modern conveniences. You live in a time of relative peace. Your basic living standards are the greatest in human history, and expected lifespan is among the longest. So it is easy to get spoiled. It's also easy to assume that you're spoiled and soft, especially compared to the ancient Greeks and Romans, or even our own ancestors. Think of how tough our predecessors were. The great David McCullough writes in his short book, History Matters, which you should definitely read. We carry it in the painted porch. I loved it. He said, "Think of what they had been through. There's no one who hasn't in ancestry

• 0:58Ryan Holiday

  who went through some kind of hell." They all did. But you know what? Your ancestors also lived in what was then a relatively advanced time. It was the most advanced time in human history up until that point. Marcus Aurelius had conveniences that Xeno didn't, just as your ancestors 80 years ago had things that even an ancient king did not. And when things went sideways, you know what they did? They handled it, as we would handle it. Churchill, in his great speech "In the darkest hours of the Second World War," McCullough pointed out, reminded us that we haven't journeyed this far because we are made of sugar candy. You come from that tradition. You are made of the same stock as the Stoics. You are literally from the stock of people who lived through wars and depressions

• 1:42Ryan Holiday

  and famines and floods. You yourself, it should be pointed out, have been through some stuff: pandemics and panics, political unrest, and personal issues. You are not made of sugar candy. You can handle this.