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Practical Stoicism with Kasey Pierce

The Paul Taylor Podcast | Expert in Hardiness and Mental Fitness

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The Importance of Accepting the Uncomfortable

Siege is this whole idea of your inner citadel or your best version of you, right? Yes. The ancient Chinese philosophers Confucis and Lao Su talked about being your sage - the stoics variously talk about either an inner sage or a sage that you're interested in. And I actually prefer that idea of it being inner rather than outer. What Nietzsche referred to as the Uberman: You're going to create the best version of yourself and then give it a little sprinkling of steroids.

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