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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stood. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stood.

It's something to help you live up to those four Stood for Choose of Courage, Justice, Temperance and Wisdom.

And then here on the weekend, we take a deeper dive into those same topics.

We interview Stood for Philosophers. We explore at length how these Stood for Choose can be applied to our actual lives and the challenges and issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday, welcome to another episode of the daily stoic podcast. It seems like unbelievable to me. It must have been 2013.

I, my wife and I went to this event in over New Year's in Charleston, South Carolina. It's called the Renaissance Weekend. And I remember it very vividly, not just because we had a great time and I met a lot of interesting people, many of which I'm still friends with to the state, but I remember it because I was working in the hotel room on the draft of the obstacle is the way I've been struggling on the book for a long time.

And I'd finally broken through like in December. And so I was finally after a lot of being stuck, I kind of, I'd kind of figured out like the format, the idea of doing it in these sort of short stories with a quote up top, you know, I figured out the format. And so finally it was like off to the races.

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