It’s Right There. Take It. | Stoic Lessons Hidden in Bruce Springsteen Songs

Ryan Holiday· Host0:00

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. [gentle music] It's right there. Take it. It's right there. It's not under lock and key. It's not secret knowledge. There's an unlimited amount. They're making more and more of it every day. It's there for everyone and anyone. And yet what do most people do? They ignore it. Epictetus said that it's impossible to learn that which you think you already know. Truman said that the only thing new in the world is a history you don't know. These two insights combine. You can't learn history that you don't take the time to look at, that you think you already understand. History is full of men and women who wrestled with the same problems we are struggling with today. History helps us avoid the pitfalls they fell into and take advantages of the opportunities before us. It can keep us from losing our mind over breaking news because we better understand how the world actually works. What you studied in school is only a start. What you've read in books is only a start. History must be returned to again and again, looked at from every angle, studied from every perspective. We can't be satisfied with just getting the gist of it, as Marcus Aurelius said. No. If we really want to benefit, we have to truly understand what happened