Don’t Let This Crush You | Make Honesty Your Only Policy
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🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
This life thing: It’s wonderful. We are sentient beings. The apex predators at the top of the food chain. We have brilliant technology, incredible pleasures, as well as talents and skills that bring us joy and success.
And guess what? We’re still gonna die. Each and every one of us. That’s the thing about life. As wonderful as life is, none of us get out of it alive. We were born mortal. Born fragile. We have had a terminal diagnosis since birth.
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And with today's meditation on the day's Daily Journal excerpt, Ryan reminds us to move with all things in moderation by having an identifiable approach on honesty. That we don't have as much time as we think we do. That’s why we created our own additions to the rich history of memento mori, including: The memento mori medallion , memento mori signet ring And the memento mori pendant, All these were created to remind us that we must live NOW, while there is still time.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah, and I'm Seruti, and we are the hosts of a Red Handed a weekly true |
| 0:05.2 | crime podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | Every week on Red Handed, we yet stuck into the most talked about cases, but we also |
| 0:10.4 | dig into those you might not have heard of, like the Nephiles Royal Massacre and the |
| 0:14.1 | Nithory Child Sacrifices. |
| 0:16.0 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behaviour. |
| 0:21.0 | Find, download, and binge Red Handed wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Rob Briden, and welcome to my podcast, Briden, and we are now in our third series. |
| 0:40.2 | Among those still to come is some Michael Palin, the comedy duo Egg and Robbie Williams. |
| 0:46.7 | The list goes on, so do sit back and enjoy Briden and on Amazon Music, Wondery Plus, |
| 0:53.8 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 1:08.6 | Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, illustrated with stories |
| 1:13.9 | from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 1:18.8 | And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic |
| 1:22.8 | intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave |
| 1:28.0 | you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing. So let's get into it. |
| 1:45.6 | Nobody gets out alive. This life thing, it's wonderful. We are sentient beings, |
| 1:52.2 | the apex predators at the top of the food chain. We have brilliant technology, |
| 1:57.2 | incredible pleasures, as well as talents and skills that bring us joy and success, and guess |
| 2:03.2 | what? We're still going to die. Each and every one of us, that's the thing about life. |
| 2:08.9 | As wonderful as it is, none of us get out of life alive. We were born mortal, born fragile. |
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