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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We have to remind ourselves, as Marcus Aurelius did, that no matter what other people do (or what other people get away with), our job is to be good.

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0:22.7	What will you put in your pages this year?
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1:07.9	Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics illustrated with stories from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.
1:20.8	And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoic intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on,
1:29.3	something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing. So let's get
1:34.7	into it.
1:49.7	Don't let it turn you upside down.
1:51.8	There was corruption everywhere.
1:53.4	Dishonesty was endemic.
1:56.2	Excess and venality were widely accepted.
2:00.5	Cato's Rome was a messed up place, and so was Marcus Aurelius's. Then, like now, it would have been
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