Face Down in the Moment | Ask Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 16 September 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The thing about life is that it’s not a thing. Life is a series of moments. As the great Annie Dillard said, how we spend our days is how we spend our lives—and how we spend our moments is how we spend our days.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom |
| 0:08.8 | designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:11.8 | But on Fridays, we not only read this daily meditation, but I try to answer some questions |
| 0:16.6 | from listeners and fellow stoics who are trying to apply this philosophy, whatever it is they |
| 0:21.8 | happen to do. |
| 0:23.4 | Sometimes these are from talks. |
| 0:25.1 | Sometimes these are people who come up to talk to me on the street. |
| 0:28.4 | Sometimes these are written in or emailed from listeners. |
| 0:32.2 | But I hope in answering their questions, I can answer your questions, give a little |
| 0:36.7 | more guidance on this philosophy we're all trying to follow. |
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