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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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In January, I found myself at a military base in Northern Italy. It's a NATO base, but the US Air Force is based there. Mostly the 31st Fighter Wing.

And I got up on stage. There was something like 2,000 airmen and women standing next to an F-16 on this cool stage and an airport hanger.

We're just talking about philosophy, how, you know, what the Stokes say. We don't control what happens. We control how we respond. These stoic virtues of justice and courage and wisdom and self-discipline.

And then I went home back to my normal life and they probably thought their normal life was resuming too.

And instead, within a matter of days, one of the worst pandemics in history strikes Northern Italy specifically. They find themselves in the hot spot of one of the worst global pandemics in memory.

And they're right in the middle of it. And so now all those ideas suddenly become much more pressing and much more urgent.

You know, when Marcus Aurelia said it stares you in the face, no role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.

It's talking about this. He was writing that in Italy 2,000 years ago as a global pandemic which had originated in Asia, had rippled through the known world, was overwhelming the medical system. It was overwhelming the economy.

It was overwhelming the government's capacity to respond. And that moment called for real leadership. And Marcus Aurelia stepped up just like these men and women have.

And so I reached out to the general there who's been a wonderful supporter of mine and I said, hey, how can I help? And he asked if I would get on a Zoom call and talk to some of the leaders in the fighter wing and at the base, which of course I was totally honored to do.

It's a little strange doing these things over Zoom. I would have loved to do it in person. What I wanted to do is just riff on some of these stoic ideas and how they can apply to what must be an overwhelming and stressful situation that real lives are depend on them being able to respond to this well.

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