Use This As Practice | 3 Stoic Exercises For Your Best Month Yet

Welcome to the daily stoic podcast designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Use this as practice. You woke up with a sore throat. You've been vomiting all day. You've had a fever that won't break. Feels like you're going to die. You won't, almost certainly, because it's just the flu, but it sure feels like it. Which is why you should use this as practice. Not practice, but practice dealing with pain, practice with dealing with a body that's being put through something that doesn't control and doesn't have much of a say about. Marcus Aurelius, who dealt with a series of chronic illnesses, tried to use these bouts as a chance to be philosophical. For times when you feel pain, he writes in Meditations, see that it doesn't disgrace you or degrade your intelligence, doesn't keep it from acting rationally or unselfishly. And in most cases, what Epicurus said should also help that pain is neither unbearable nor unending as long as you keep in mind its limits and don't magnify them in your imagination. Your symptoms will abate eventually. You'll get through this in a couple of days or a week. That's the blessing here, that it's not more serious. In the meantime, though, use this as practice. Get your reps in. Because none of us have any idea what life has in store for us in the future. Shopping at Whole Foods is one of the things I do in our family. Like, the grocery shopping is my job, so I was glad to be able to do that even on vacation. And then, you know, being here in Hawaii, it was the same Whole Foods experience we're thinking about, but then also a bunch of regional stuff too that they only have at this Whole Foods. We love shopping at Whole Foods because there's always new flavors and foods to choose from whichever Whole Foods you are like, whichever Whole Foods you happen to be at. So save on regional flavors at Whole Foods Market, and, maybe I'll see you at the Whole Foods in Austin sometime. I know it's not good for me to just run. I need it for my mental health, but it takes a toll on me physically, and I need to mix it up. So one of the things I'm trying to work on this year is doing more diverse kinds of workouts and specifically doing more strength training. And that's where today's sponsor comes in. Tonal provides the convenience of a full gym and the guidance of a personal trainer anytime at home with their one sleek system. Designed to reduce your mental load, Tonal is the ultimate strength training system, helping you focus less on workout planning and more on getting results. Plus, there's no more second guessing on your form. Tonal gives you real time coaching cues to dial in your form, which I need a …