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Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person.

You want to know the latest sports news, but don't want to sit through a two hour podcast.

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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women.

Do it before it's too late.

If you went into surgery tomorrow and died, after they informed your family, they'd cart

your body down to the morgue of the hospital to do an autopsy.

Then the doctors would convene a post-mortem panel and discuss how this happened and how

they could learn from it.

After again, the surgeon might say to themselves, I won't ever make that mistake again, which

would all be very well and good for everyone, but you.

Of course, far preferable to a post-mortem would be a pre-mortem.

Seneca called this the pre-metitatio melorum, a meditation on all that could go wrong,

before it went wrong.

Exile war, torture, shipwreck, he said, all this should be before our minds.

The only inexcusable thing for a leader to say, he said, was that I did not think that

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