How To Astonish and Inspire For Centuries | What's in Your Way Is The Way

<p>In Walter Isaacson’s <a href="https://www.thepaintedporch.com/products/biography14?_pos=1&amp;_sid=3d51c325b&amp;_ss=r" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wonderful biography of Leonardo Da Vinci</a>, he spends a lot of time dissecting and exploring the ideas in Da Vinci’s notebooks. As Isaacson observed of Da Vinci’s lifelong <a href="https://dailystoic.com/journaling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">habit of journaling</a>: “Five hundred years later, Leonardo’s notebooks are around to astonish and inspire us. Fifty years from now, our own notebooks, if we work up the initiative to start them, will be around to astonish and inspire our grandchildren, unlike our tweets and Facebook posts.”</p><p>Paper, Isaacson says, is one of the best technologies ever invented.</p><p>---</p><p>And in today's excerpt from <em>The Daily Stoic Journal</em>, Ryan expounds on the seminal Stoic idea that shaped his book <em>The Obstacle Is The Way</em>. </p><p>✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more, including the leather-bound edition of <a href="https://dailystoic.com/leather" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>The Daily Stoic</em></a>.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TikTok</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a></p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.