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🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Culture has changed. Technology has changed. Work has changed. Politics have changed. The environment has changed. You think these changes could have been prevented. Yet what you’re forgetting is that this is how it’s always been.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:18.8	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:40.3	For more, visit Dailystoic.com.
0:43.0	Are you having trouble with these changes?
1:00.2	It's a lot.
1:01.5	Culture has changed.
1:02.6	Technology has changed.
1:04.4	Work has changed.
1:06.4	Politics have changed.
1:08.3	The environment has changed.
1:13.1	And we're having trouble dealing with some of these changes, living with these changes that we didn't ask for. You know, maybe they could have been
1:19.9	prevented, but what we forget when we complain about change is that it's always been this
1:25.5	way. In fact, nothing has really changed at all, we can
1:30.7	imagine Mark Serialis reminding us, because change is a constant from his time to ours. Indeed,
1:37.3	can you think of any time in history where culture was not changing, when technology wasn't
1:42.1	changing things, when the economy wasn't shifting, when politicians weren't coming and going from office, when technology wasn't changing things, when the economy wasn't shifting, when
1:45.5	politicians weren't coming and going from office, when policies weren't falling in and out of
1:49.7	favor, when the world around us wasn't changing, whether it was from storms or man-made causes.
1:56.2	In fact, you wouldn't be here right now, if not for those changes, as Marcus Ruelas points out in meditations.
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