Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

Well, on Thursdays, we not only read the daily meditation,

but we answer some questions from listeners and fellow Stoics.

We're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are. Some of these come from my talks. Some of these come

from Zoom sessions that we do with Daily Stoic Life members or as part of the challenges.

Some of them are from interactions I have on the street

when there happened to be someone there recording.

But thank you for listening, and we hope this is of use to you.

Do this, it's enough.

Do this, it's enough.

Marcus Aurelius didn't just study philosophy when he was young.

He didn't just pick a set of beliefs and stick with him.

No, to him, philosophy was a lifelong study, a process that he committed to.

That's why even as an old man, he was seen famously headed off to attend the lectures from Sextus, the philosopher.

And while this certainly made him quite educated and quite smart,

we can also imagine something else happening

after so many years of reading and discourse and meditating.

What undoubtedly happened is that as he got older, the he learned the closer he came to understanding Socrates's humility

The sense that the more one learns the less certain they are they know as John Adams detailed in David McCullough's amazing biography, wrote in his own old age,

you are not singular in your suspicions that you know but little. The longer I live, he said, the more I read, the more patiently

I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know. Yet Adams, like

Marcus, still found himself returning to a set of ageless universal principles.

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