Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you in your everyday life.

On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual

lives.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy.

Have you considered this?

We all have reasons we don't like something.

We think a certain comedian isn't funny or is a hack.

We think a certain author is too basic or overhyped.

We think that Oscar-winning movie is total garbage.

We know what's stupid and lame, what's low brow or trash, what's fake and what's real,

authentic or commercial.

It's interesting how certain we are with these opinions about particular people or products.

Far less often do we stop and think, oh, maybe I'm just not the audience for that.

Stoicism itself is often the victim of this by academics.

The philosophy is too simple, too self-helpful, too repetitive, they say.

Daily Stoic is itself accused of that very thing by fans of stosism.

I don't need a coin to remind me of my mortality.

Why not just read the original text instead of some modern book?

But again, what if maybe just maybe it's not for you?

Maybe it's for someone else.

Maybe someone who is struggling.

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