Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole. Thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. The gaining knowledge and wisdom about life's workings has always been a

curiosity of mine and as I discover new insights and truths about life I am quickly reminded of how much I do not know as the maximum goes the more you know you're the more you realize you don't know, right?

And so I took those who, I looked to those

who are full of wisdom or have more experience

or who have a better understanding of life.

And I am constantly asking them questions or I am at least trying to sit back and listen and observe what they have done in their lives

How it's worked out and so on and so forth so I'm going to begin with today's quote from Socrates, the Greek philosopher that is is given

a label of being the founder of Western philosophy.

I'm going to share this quote with you and part of it you're probably going to recognize.

Okay, here we go. Quote, I say that it is the

greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things

about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and others,

for the unexamined life is not worth living.

The last part of that quote is probably what you're more familiar with or most familiar with as it is often quoted

on quotable pages or Pinterest or even on Twitter. So I'm going to say it one more time because it really is the

focal point of today's podcast. The unexamined life is not worth living. I was intrigued by this

quote. I've been intrigued by this quote and I'm always shaking my head in

agreement yes yes yes that's true I get it

but do I really get it what does it really mean what is an unexamined life and as I said

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