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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. On Friday, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation,

but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic. My book, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in the Heart of Living,

which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, and a literary agent, Stephen Hanselman.

So today, we'll give you a quick meditation from the Stoics with some analysis from me,

and then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words into works.

Are you showing them how to be a student?

If you think back to when you were a kid, what appeared to you to be the best part of about being an adult?

No more school. Our parents didn't have to carry around heavy books or do homework.

We never saw them applying to get into this school or that one.

It's sort of sad that by and large, we show our kids that education stops.

That while adulthood isn't always fun, one perk is that you no longer have to go to class.

That graduation is a final destination.

It doesn't have to be this way.

There's the story of Epic Titus teaching one day when his students arrive or caused a commotion in the back of class.

Who was it? It was Hadrian, the Emperor. Hadrian's example clearly had an impact on his successor and adopted grandson Marcus Aurelius.

Late in his reign, a friend spotted Marcus heading out carrying a stack of books.

Where are you going? He asked.

Marcus was on his way to a lecture on stoicism.

He said, for learning is a good thing, even for one who is growing old.

I am now on my way to sexist the philosopher to learn that, which I do not yet know.

If you want your kids to value learning, if you want them to never stop furthering the education you've been investing so much time and money and worry into,

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