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Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation,

but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman.

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

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Ask yourself this question about every thought. Every minute of every day, thoughts pop into your head about what's happening, about other people, about yourself, about what you see, about what you feel.

What are you supposed to do with all these thoughts? Well, according to the core premise of stoicism, the one thing you're not supposed to do is act on them immediately.

Epic Titus talks about stopping and putting every impression to the test. Or as Dr. Stixrod said on the Daily Stoic podcast, his excellent book, The Self-Driven Child is one I recommend you pick that up at the Painted porch.

He said that with every thought we must have the discipline to ask, is this true? All of life is opinion. Mark Sirelia said, stuff happens and we make snap judgments.

But this subjectivity can be misleading, it can warp reality itself. That's why we have to slow down, submit every impression to the test, confirm everything we think and feel is true.

Because most of it isn't. We're not actually upset, we're just hungry. We haven't been wrong, it just looks like we have been.

There's nothing actually to worry about, that's just our anxiety talking. The situation isn't bad because just as easily we could see what's good in it.

Or maybe as so often as the case, we don't need to think anything about it at all. We can just turn off our thoughts about this for that all together. Got it?

Heroes, here and now. Such behavior. People don't want to praise their contemporaries whose lives they actually share but hold great expectations for the praise of future generations.

People they haven't even met or ever will. And this is a kin to being upset that the past generations didn't praise you.

Mark Sirelia says, 618. And I'm reading to you today from the Daily Stoic 366 Meditations on Wisdom Perseverance in the Art of Living by yours truly.

My co-author and translator, Steve Enhancelman, you can get signed copies by the way in the Daily Stoic store over a million copies of the Daily Stoic in print now. It's been just such a lovely experience to watch it.

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