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It's easy to think that philosophies is this sort of abstract thing that it's just exercises or thought exercises or just big words.

But the truth is, in ancient philosophy, philosophers were just regular people. They had day jobs. Marcus really says the Emperor of Rome, Zeno was a merchant.

One of the Stoics was a manual labor. They had normal lives, lots of responsibilities. And so philosophy was a way for them to get through life and to get through life effectively, happily, productively.

And so what we see in Stoicism is all sorts of really awesome exercises that help us live the best life that we can.

The first lesson from the Stoics is that you have to guard your time. Seneca talks about how even though time is the only non-renewable resource on the planet, it's the one we are the most frivolous with.

If someone stole some of your property, he said you'd fight to get it back. But we let people steal our time or worse, we waste our own time.

And you have to be able to guard your time carefully. You have to know, hey, this is my most valuable resource. I cannot waste it. I cannot afford to fritter it away because I'm not getting any of it back.

And so I think the Stoics would be avid protectors of their inbox. They wouldn't frivolously agree to things. They would say no to things. They would guard their time.

The next lesson we get from the Stoics is to just wake up earlier. Marcus Aurelius has this fascinating dialogue with himself in Book 5 of Meditations where he talks about how he can't stay under the covers and be warm all day.

He goes, but it's so nice here. And he says, but you weren't put on this planet to feel nice. You were put on this planet to do what you were put on this planet to do.

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