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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast.

Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Don't wait to try it.

You've thought about living somewhere else.

You thought about testing the job market.

You thought about asking someone out.

You thought about taking lessons.

But what do we do?

Well, like a fool, as Seneca says,

we put it off. We delay starting. We say we'll do it later. We say we'll do it when we have more information, when things settle down, when we're more comfortable and secure. There are two

stoic exercises, both built around Latin expressions that can serve as mantras. The first, Mementumori,

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