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Hello and welcome back to practical stoicism. I appreciate you returning for another meditation. My name is Tanner. I am your host. And before we get started, I would like to remind you that if you'd like to get rid of ads in the show and you'd like to get straight to the point, you can subscribe to the premium version of this podcast at stoicism.com, and I hope that you

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review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, or Podchaser.com. Also, just a real quick note

that in today's meditation, we are told to be men, to be like Romans. And for those of you out

there who are listening, who are of the female persuasion, I want to take just a second to

remind you that this philosophy is intended for you too. Stoicism, if anybody takes it

seriously, which I assume everyone listening to this program does. Stoicism is for everyone. It is not a

gender exclusive philosophy. The language of it, because it's from so deep back in antiquity,

can make it seem that way, but it's not. So to my female listenership,

you belong here too. And I hope that the way that I deliver the explanations of these meditations

are as useful to you as they are to the many, many men who subscribe to this podcast. I'm not

completely unaware of the fact that if you Google stoicism or what is stoicism, you get a lot of really half-assed attempts at explaining what it is and it can come off as very bro-y or machismo and that is not what this philosophy is.

And part of why I present this podcast in the way that I do is to make sure there's another option out there.

Hey, this is Stoicism, but it's not dude bro

stoicism and it's not Silicon Valley stoicism and it's not ancient stoicism. It's practical

stoicism and it's for everybody. And that's all I'll say on it. Today we're going to be going

over meditation number five from book two, which reads as follows. Every moment, think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple

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