Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women.

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A Stoic isn't born. They're made.

Marcus Aurelius wasn't born. Marcus Aurelius, literally his name was Marcus Catalyst Severus

Anius Verus.

Epictetus wasn't born a sage, and to say he was would be to deprive him of the enormous

credit due to a man who went from a lowly slave to a wise and powerful philosopher.

No, becoming a Stoic takes work. It takes practice.

And we've been talking this month about the idea of spiritual exercising, a term coined

by Pierre Hadoa, a great writer about the Stoics.

Well, philosophy wasn't this thing you were taught, he said.

It was a thing you did through reading, through journaling, through practice in the real

world.

Just as one becomes strong through lift and weights or skill that would working through

time in their workshop, we've become adapt and able to philosophy through a similar

process.

Stoicism is designed to be that, a practice and a routine.

It's not a philosophy you read once and magically understand at a soul level.

No, it's a lifelong pursuit that requires diligence and repetition and concentration.

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