Freedom is An Opportunity For This | A Strong Soul Is Better Than Good Luck
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
You’d think that the more powerful you are, the more freedom you’d have. The more money and success you have, the more you can do. You’d think that being a millionaire or being a celebrity or being the CEO would finally unshackle you from all the obnoxious and annoying constraints of being a ‘regular’ person…
How wrong this is. How wrong this has always been.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:07.3 | On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading |
| 0:13.3 | a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic's 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in |
| 0:19.2 | the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman. |
| 0:25.2 | So today we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics from Epititus Marks, |
| 0:30.2 | Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me. |
| 0:33.3 | And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works. |
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| 0:58.3 | We asked people to bring in three words of meaning and significance to their lives. |
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