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Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. This one sounds a little different because I am recording from Las Vegas, Nevada, where I took my youngest son, Jones, on our first solo trip together because I'm giving a talk to a group of people here in Las Vegas, which is one of my favorite things about what I get to do. Obviously, writing is introverted and solitary, but community is a huge part of it for me.
And that's basically what today's Daily Stoic email is about. This is what comes next. You've read meditations. Maybe you've even read The Obstacle is the Way.
You've highlighted passages, filled up notebooks, maybe even memorized a few lines. Eventually, we all come to the same question. Now, what do I do next? The book ends, the highlighter runs dry, and we feel something stirring, a desire to go deeper, to live the words, not just admire them, to see them in action, to take these ancient ideas and make them a part of who we are every day, especially when it's hard.
Actually, that's why we made Daily Stoic Life, the community that I'm a part of, that thousands of people all over the world are a part of, and that we'd like you to be a part of. The next step in this Stoic journey isn't just more reading. It's community. It's accountability.
It's practice. 2,000 years ago, Zeno didn't found Stoicism alone in a cave. He taught on a porch, a public space. He gathered students who came to be challenged and sharpened and improved together.
And from that porch came a lineage of people who changed the world. Cleanthes, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Cato. These people weren't self-made. They were shaped and sharpened by the people around them.
And that process is true today, too. Modern Stoics are parents and athletes and entrepreneurs and soldiers and artists, students. They're busy, curious, principled people who want to do more than just talk about virtue. They want to live it.
And they want to do it with others who share that aim. And that's what Daily Stoic Life is. It's a private global community of people walking the Stoic path together, sharing ideas, asking hard questions, holding each other accountable, becoming better human beings together. And if you join right now, you get something like $1,000 in value.
That's access to all the Daily Stoic courses and challenges. You get this community that's free, I think, of trolls and distractions and enters on. There's weekly bonus meditations to help you deepen your practice. There's live Q&As with me, special guests throughout the year, priority access to discounts, books, events, new releases, all sorts of great stuff like that.
Plus, you get a hardcover edition of our 2024 Meditations, the best emails we wrote last year. And we'll throw in right now 2021, 2022, and 2023 while supplies last. And all this is less than $250 a year, less than the cost of a single college class at a community college. Seneca reminds us that we want to associate with people who improve us because the process is mutual.
We learn as we teach. And that's what Daily Stoic Life is, a space to learn and teach and grow, to have a place to make friends and be challenged, to become more of what we are and help others do the same. So if you ever ask yourself, what do I do next? I'd love to have you join us in Daily Stoic Life.
You can sign up right now at dailystoiclife.com. I'll link to that in today's show notes also. And I'm going to go talk to these lovely people down in the convention center in a few minutes.