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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals, and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. You may be able to hear my screaming children in the background such as life during the pandemic.

Someone was telling me the other day and I hadn't really thought about it this way, but we are well into our third season now of this new reality.

First, it was spring and summer. Now here we are into fall and it goes on. I mean, look, this is nothing compared to the Antenine Plague, Marcus Relius, you know, that plague comes to Rome.

Maybe they were telling themselves the same thing. It'll be over by summer. This will just disappear like a miracle, because one head of state has said, but certainly no one was expecting it would last for 15 years.

I'm definitely not saying that the coronavirus is here for 15 years, but the point is, I think it's a good reminder of this idea of like, oh, when things go back to normal, oh, when things go back to normal, oh, this will be over soon.

It ties us into this stockpill idea that it's the optimist that get wrecked. The people who think, oh, we'll be home by Christmas and Christmas comes, satire, control, and you're wrecked by it.

So it's not to say I don't have expectations, I don't have hopes, but I do try to manage those things. I try to be present.

It, look, it has been three seasons, but they've also, you know, flown by. And, but as much as they've flown by, I have the receipts, right, for what I've managed to do in that period, and I'm proud of that.

Not just the time I've spent with my family, not just the time I've spent getting a nice bit of stillness here and there, but also, you know, I've got the, I've got the pages to prove it.

I finished a book project, lives of the Stokes, we were doing the last bits of editing on when this started. That's now out. I started the next project that's winding up and it goes right in project and something else. I'm not ready to talk about, but I'm excited about a whole bunch of other stuff, right, including really investing in and spending a lot of time on this podcast, which I'm excited about.

The Stokes would say that it's not just about productivity, of course, but look, like those three seasons are not just arbitrary days or moments on a calendar. They're your life.

You're watching them flip by every day. I rip off the page in the daily Stoke calendar. You can check out in the daily Stoke store, but I try to tell myself as I'm pulling off this tarot way page of the calendar. That's a day of my life gone. And Senka would say, you know, those days now belong to death. We've died three seasons. We've died six, seven months here.

We never get that time back. And so if you did waste that time, look, it's not the worst thing in the world, but you wasted it.

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