Here’s The Deal | Balance The Books Of Life
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
We got together with family. We reminded ourselves what was important. We enjoyed the bounties of the Earth. Perhaps when we took the rolls out of the oven we noted, as Marcus Aurelius did in Meditations, the way the bread cracks open on top, a nod to nature’s inadvertence.
We gave thanks.
And then the next day, what did millions of people do? They rushed out to get a deal on a flat-screen television or crowded into department stores to take advantage of Black Friday deals. Then today, they sat down at their computer or on their phones to spend even more money for Cyber Monday.
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| 1:03.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:08.0 | Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, illustrated with stories from history, current events |
| 1:15.7 | and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 1:18.8 | And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoic intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing. |
| 1:31.0 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:38.3 | We got together with family, |
| 1:39.7 | we reminded ourselves what was important. |
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