We Could Use More People Like This | How Ryan Holiday Is Challenging Himself Creatively

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. We could use more people like this. It's a dark world. It's a world with cheats and cowards, liars and monsters. It's also a world of busy people with a lot going on, people who don't have time or energy to get involved.

That is why it is such a public service, as we said, to be courageous, as Cato was, as Helvidius was, even as Marcus Aurelius was during the Antonine plague. A public service to whom? To those people who are not cheats and cowards, liars and monsters, to the the busy people, the people who have a lot going on, the people who don't know what they can do, let alone what they ought to do. When they see someone committed to justice, when they see someone speaking out, when they see someone getting involved, when they see someone doing good, it sends a powerful message. It shows them that not everyone is dark, that not everyone is afraid.

It gives them an example to follow, gives them hope. gives them a practical set of things that they can do. We can always use more leaders. We are in desperate need of good, courageous people. Can you fill that need?

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