What do I do? What do I do? What do I say?

What do I say?

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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.

How do you know if you're a good leader? You lead a large team, you're the head of a household,

you have millions of followers or thousands of subscribers, and you often wonder,

am I being a good leader, am I doing right by my kids, my followers, my employees?

Am I being a good steward? It can be hard to know, employees don't go out of their way to tell

their manager that they're doing a great job, kids don't fill their parents in on how they're doing,

and the unhappy followers tend to be louder than the happy ones.

But from the Stoics, we get a fast and easy test for whether we're doing a good job.

It's this, do you make people better? As Seneca said, happy is the man who can make others better,

not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts.

And that is the essence of being a great leader, a great stoic, a great human being,

as the leadership coach Randall Stuntman told us during the Daily Stoic Leadership Challenge,

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