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Love gang. Welcome to The Greatness Machine. I'm your host Darius from Shazda. I'm so pumped

to have you here with me. And listen, the greatness machine were about two things. Number one, people were living their passions. And number two, those who are creating greatness in the world and doing both of these things despite the odds against them. Each episode, we're going to feature interviews with game changers, business leaders, telling us their origin stories, what made them tick, what got them to where they are now? Why? So can help

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

you might hear a few solo episodes for myself, more 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 this episode, The Greatest Machine. I'm your host, Darius Meshazadei, and I'm flying solo, my friends. And today, I'm going to be talking a little more stoicism. I like talking stoicism on Fridays, but it was funny. I was like looking up things I wanted to talk about.

And I googled this article, and it was the Stoic Path to Interpiece and Self-Mastery.

And I was reading through it and says, one of the fundamental stoic exercises that has helped me immensely is a concept of premeditatio malorum. And what this means is the,

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