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Welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm your host, as always, Tanner Campbell. And before we start, I know I promised I'd never talk about ads again, but I need about 30 seconds of your time to talk about them. I'm aware that for the last week and for this week, that the ratio of ads to content would be a little too low, a little too equal.

The reason for this is simply that I am adjusting to creating content every day instead of twice a week. I have to write about 14,000 words a week in order for each one of these episodes to be,

you know, 10 or 15 minutes of pure content, excluding the ads. And I'm still kind of ramping up to that. I think

I bit off a little bit more than I could chew, but, you know, sometimes you just got to go for it

and work through the struggle of starting, and then you get there. So it's been a little bit of a

challenge this week and last. Thank you for dealing with it last week. Thank you for continuing

to deal with it this week. Next week will be different. The episodes will be longer. Thank you for continuing to deal with it this week. Next week will be different.

The episodes will be longer. Thank you for bearing with me. And to those of you who have brought this to my

attention, I did already know, and I appreciate that the way that you brought it to me was

respectful and understanding and patient. With that, let's jump into today's meditation, which is

the ninth from book four, and it reads as follows. That which does not

make a man worse than he was also does not make his life worse, nor does it harm him, either from

without or from within. This one is short, but I think deep. If a thing doesn't make you worse than

you were, then it doesn't make your life

worse, and it also cannot harm you. This upcoming week, I'm going to be sitting down for a discussion

with Kai Whiting, who is an interesting mashup of a traditionalist and a modernist. You'll need to

listen to the episode to understand what I mean by that, but we talk a lot about the

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