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Our Duty To Learn
Focusing on the Daily Stoic Meditation for July 7 — Our Duty To Learn, as outlined by Ryan Holiday in the bestseller 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art Of Living.
“This is what you should teach me, how to be like Odysseus — how to love my country, wife and father, and how, even after suffering shipwreck, I might keep sailing on course to those honorable ends.”
— SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 88.7b
Always Learn
As a part of the stoic duty to be good, you also have a duty to always learn.
You have a duty to be always eager for more knowledge, on a range of different subjects and areas.
You have a duty to desire to continuously improve yourself, and to learn new ways to love yourself.
You have a duty to recognise that there is always more for you to learn.
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There’s a great range of different ways to always embrace and incorporate learning into your life;
- Read books! Non fiction books are definitely great for learning, especially when it comes to learning things about love, business and self improvement. Fiction books are always great too.
- Listen to podcasts — some of my favourites are; Know…
