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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday

We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics

Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice

Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics

We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives

And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things

Have slowed down be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal

And most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring

Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another weekend episode of

The Daily Stoic podcast. I'm gonna give you a little behind the scenes on today's episode

I was sitting down and I wanted to write about

300 sparts the story of

The Spartans at Thermopoli one of the most inspiring epic moments in the history of Western civilization

Literally a clash of civilizations the East and the West and I don't know if we'd be sitting here talking

Today had those 300 Spartans not gone to what we call the hot gates

and

fought for the

Western

Way of life the Greek way of life against the then tyrannical Persian way of life the conqueror

Xerxes who wanted to subjugate Greece

anyways

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