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you step into your greatness within your life, your business, and your career. Occasionally,

you might hear a few solo episodes for myself, as I say, as I leverage my 20 years of entrepreneurship

as a CEO and founder to help you grow and level up in your journey to scale your life and

your business. So, come be a fly on the wall, enjoy the conversation, and I'm stoked to have you here with me. What's up, everybody? Welcome to these episodes. The greatness of my host, Darius, Meshazda. Man, I'm flying solo, and we're doing some more Stoicism Fridays. It's a new thing I'm doing. I've been studying Stoicism, like lightly for, gosh, a couple years now.

And I mentioned this last one last week's solo that I got introduced to Ryan Holiday.

I was just through, he's connected with a lot of my friends, he's friends of friends.

And I started paying attention to his work. I was reading a lot of books in 2022 and

23. And so I kind of got addicted to his books. And yeah, it's been kind of a thing I've

fallen in love with is, you know, Ryan and his work. And so, you know, I pay attention to his

Instagram handle, Daily Stoic, I highly recommend checking out if you want to learn some

stoicism. And it's really just like how the, you know, kind of the greatest emperor of Rome

and many of his teachers and compatriots of his time, how they thought about how to live a good

life. And it's a philosophy that I got

introduced to that I'm pretty into right now. But there's a post that Ryan and the Daily Stoic

had out a few days ago, which was essentially like seven things you should never do according

to the Stoics. So I thought that was pretty cool. I wanted to read some of these to you and really

kind of give you my thoughts on them because I've actually, what I've found was I kind of landed in a lot of these places by myself just through my own life learnings. I was like, oh. And then also I read, even the first one I'm going to read a second from now. I literally have an entire episode about this. So we're going to go through these and have a little

fun here. But seven things you should never do according to the Stoics. Number one is don't suffer

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