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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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This is your most important job. Some people delight in improving their farms.

Epictetus said some people find great pleasure in making more money or winning fame, but epictetus he delighted in improving himself day to day.

But still even here we can miss the point. Epictetus wasn't talking about getting better abs or mastering obscure literature.

He was talking about becoming a better person at working on things that really matter.

First and foremost among the things that really mattered to the Stoics was being a good parent. Where else does someone have such an enormous opportunity to impact the future than by raising their kids right?

Epictetus adopted a boy and raised him. Cato trained his daughter, Portia, in philosophy and expected as much of her as he did of his sons.

Musoneus Rufus explained most beautifully what parenting meant to the Stoics. He said, what a great spectacle it is when a husband or wife with many children are seen with these children crowded around them.

No procession conducted for the gods is as beautiful to look at and no ritual performed solemnly for a sacred occasion is as worthy of being watched as is a chorus of many children guiding their parents through the city leading them by the hand or otherwise caring for them.

What is more lovely than this spectacle? What is more worthy of emulation than these parents?

So that's really the question how do we emulate these great parents of history, these philosophers? How can we work on improving ourselves at this essential job?

The one for which we are given next to no training, the one for which many of us had less than ideal models in our own childhood.

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