Heal Yourself With This | The Cure for a Reading Slump
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. Feel yourself. With this.
Sometimes life gets heavy. Relationships dissolve. The job you thought you'd have forever disappears without warning. Someone you love gets a difficult diagnosis. It stings.
Stoicism is designed as medicine for the soul. It relieves us of the vulnerabilities of modern life and restores us with the vigor we need to thrive. That's why the stoics urged us to read, to study, and to journal, not as abstract philosophy, but to help us recover from the stuff life throws at us. Don't return to philosophy as a taskmaster, Marx Realis says in Meditations. But as patients seek out the relief in treatment of sore eyes or a dressing for a burn or from an ointment.
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