Before You Get Angry Today, Listen To This
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🗓️ 23 April 2025
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We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural.
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| 0:14.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:20.5 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:27.7 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy |
| 0:31.6 | that has guided some of history's greatest men and women |
| 0:36.2 | to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:41.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
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| 1:08.1 | The actor Troy Baker has a strange little tattoo on his wrist. |
| 1:12.8 | The Roman symbol for two, and then the Roman symbol for one. It's basically three lines separated by a period. What does that mean? Why is that the first thing that he looks at |
| 1:19.1 | each morning? What does it have to do with Stoicism? Well, a dedicated reader of Marcus Aurelius' |
| 1:24.8 | Meditations would recognize the significance immediately, |
| 1:28.5 | because it's an allusion to one of the most powerful passages in the entire book. |
| 1:33.2 | When you wake up in the morning, per the Gregory Hayes translation, tell yourself the people |
| 1:38.3 | I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. |
| 1:44.0 | They are like this because they can't tell |
| 1:45.9 | good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil, Marcus Aurelius wrote, |
| 1:52.1 | and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own, not of the same blood |
| 1:57.7 | or birth, but of the same mind and possessing a share of the divine. |
| 2:01.8 | So none of them can hurt me. |
| 2:03.1 | No one can implicate me in ugliness. |
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