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🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

You have to interrogate the thoughts, views, and understanding of the facts. You do this not to prove you're right, but to ensure you’re not wrong—to make sure you’re not embarrassingly, shamefully, confidently wrong.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:18.8	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:40.3	For more, visitdailystoic.com.
0:59.7	It's natural. It's common, it's also a cognitive bias. We have our assumptions and we stick to them.
1:02.4	We seek out confirmation of them.
1:04.3	We do not want to have to change them.
1:07.1	This is comfortable and it's also a recipe for getting things terribly wrong, and a Stoic must fight it.
1:14.8	This is why Seneca tried to read books from rival schools, why Marcus Aurelia said he appreciated people who disagreed with him or even corrected him.
1:23.5	Certainly a rare thing for an emperor in those days.
1:26.8	When we had the writer Wright Thompson on the Daily Stoic podcast,
1:29.5	which you can listen to, I can even watch the episode.
1:31.8	It's great. I'll link to it on YouTube.
1:33.3	He talked about something he did for his book, which I loved.
1:36.3	It's called The Barn, the Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.
1:40.9	Using a cybersecurity term, he talked about the importance of red teaming your beliefs
1:46.8	to guard against preconceived notions or incorrect assumptions. It's like when you're writing,
1:53.7	the detail you love, you need to triple check. Yes. Because like, so the, my researcher and fact
2:00.1	checker on this book is a woman named Katie King.
2:03.3	And there are a couple of things in there that were so crazy that I started trying to can.
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