{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)","title":"Dying Daily: The Gap Between Knowing and Doing","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":253,"description":"📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe\n\nWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.\nThe philosopher and the athlete are working on the same problem. The athlete knows that wanting to be fast is not the same as being fast. \n\nBetween the desire and the capacity lies the only thing that actually closes the gap—the practice, repeated daily, in conditions that are sometimes ideal and more often not. No serious athlete waits to feel motivated. \n\nMotivation is a consequence of practice, not its precondition. \n\nYou train. The capacity develops. The desire follows.\n\nThe philosopher has the same problem and the same solution.\n\n“First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.” — Epictetus, Discourses\n\nEpictetus taught philosophy the way a coach teaches sport. \n\nThe point is not the argument. The point is performance, and it happens under the actual conditions of your life. [...]\n\n---\n \n 🖇️ Stay Connected: \nNewsletter: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations\n---\n \n 🦉 Additional Resources: \nPerennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archive\nListen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZXakSCMxFHH1oG3VgdUsG44cgfMs_Sd_Ny4UbaxvH-U/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81MGM0/NjFhZGE3ZDI1MjZj/ZmJkMzEwNjQ1NGI3/YTRkMy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}