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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 you make time for this?

Even when he was president, Jimmy Carter tried to carve out space for reflection and study.

Just a few days after being sworn in, he was already asking his aides to push his meetings back.

I need more alone time in the morning.

He wrote to his team.

He wanted an hour of reading and thinking and prayer.

The Stoics protected this time too.

Marcus Aurelius writes, even though it was a struggle about greeting the dawn.

And this was likely when he penned his meditations.

We talked about Hugh Jackman a while back.

We talked about getting up in the mornings and reading stillness is the key allowed to his wife.

But what about us?

We're sucked into the phone first thing or we're waking up well into mid-morning and we're already behind.

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