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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.

Does it measure up?

Alexander the Great, like so many talented people wanted to be the best.

He wanted to have the most.

He could not be satisfied, and this propelled him to great heights, great lengths, and greatness.

It quite literally took him to the ends of the earth.

And then, as the poet Juvenile writes, when Alexander the Great was alive, the world was not

big enough to contain his ambition.

But while Alexander chafed at the confines of the world in life in death, coffin was enough.

To the Stoics, to Marcus Aurelius in particular, this was a cautionary tale.

We have to resist the delusion that our specialness makes us immune from criticism or consequences.

We can't let our accomplishments fool us into thinking we are immortal, that we can out

think, outrun, outwork, death.

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