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Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to a bonus episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast.

We've talked about this before, but Seneca says the path to wisdom is acquiring one thing a day, right?

It's not this transformative moment.

There's no lightning bolt.

Enlightenment doesn't suddenly hit you.

No, it's a day-to-day

thing, right? Wisdom takes work. I love that phrase. Maybe someone should write a book about it. And of course,

that's exactly what I did. Seneca says that no man is wise by chance. It takes a lot of work. And it's that

day-to-day showing up, getting a little here, getting a little

there cumulatively. We get closer to where we want to be. So the new book, Wisdom Takes Work,

is out in less than 30 days. It's out on October 21st. You can pre-order it anywhere books are

sold. But if you go to DailyStoecoic.com slash wisdom, there's a bunch of awesome

pre-order bonuses, including a few more of these signed and numbered first editions. We almost

certainly will sell out of them. So if you want one, grab them. But this idea of day-to-dayness,

the acquiring one thing a day. As part of the launch, we've been doing 30 days of wisdom on social media.

I'm just riffing on one topic, one idea from the book, from the ancients, as Seneca says to do.

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