PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: We can't let them provoke and distract us. We can't let them make us despair either. We must remain sober. We must regroup. We must ignore the "shit" and come together to defeat the flood. If not, we risk being wiped out and washed away by its chaos and tyranny.
YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:  In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday shares the stories of some lesser-known yet equally wise women in Stoic history and the sexism that kept them from relevance: "Seneca refers to women in his writings as simple-minded and lacking self-control and weak. In truth, the women in his life were marvels of virtue and strength and perseverance—marvels of the Stoic ideas he championed." Subscribe to Daily Stoic YouTube
PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:  In a recent episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with author Michael Easter on the comfort and scarcity mindsets, contemplating death, and embracing boredom for personal gain: "When I go on hikes and stuff, I don't bring my phone. Even when I wait in line at the grocery store, everyone's on their phone. But that is an opportunity to just observe, to think. Sure, it's boring, but sometimes you need to see and observe some interesting things that can help you. You can kind of work through bigger questions that are lurking in the background, and you might all of a sudden find that answer." Subscribe to Daily Stoic Podcast Listen ad-free with Wondery plus or on Amazon Music with your Prime membership.
WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING: "We do not really know what draws a human being out into the world. Is it curiosity? A hunger for experience? An addiction to wonderment? The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart. If he believes that everything has already happened, that he has seen it all, then something most precious has died within him—the delight in life." — Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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