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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday

We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics

Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice

Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics

We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives

And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things

Have slowed down be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring

Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast

On the one hand, I've had a very privileged life as many of us Americans have

In fact, I'd say all Americans have had a more privileged life than many people all over the world

And I would say any of us alive today have clearly a much more privileged lives than even many kings and emperors and

You know wealthy people of the past, right? So

Today's episode I wanted to talk about what we do

How do we seek out difficulty and

Challenges because as the Stoic say they you know they pity that person who has never experienced adversity or difficulty because you don't know what you're capable of

so again

I have a soft privilege profession in the sense that I get to sit in my office in right books and

And that's that's great and wonderful. I'm not in a war zone

I don't have not battling some you know life-threatening disease

Not a persecuted minority, but

That doesn't mean that it wasn't hard to get where I was just as it wasn't hard to get where you were and so

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