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Investigate Yourself First

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🗓️ 19 February 2025

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The world is full of mysteries. There is so much to learn. 


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0:14.1

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

0:20.5

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

0:27.7

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy

0:31.6

that has guided some of history's greatest men and women

0:36.2

to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

0:41.0

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

0:49.1

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1:10.5

Investigate yourself first. The world is full of mysteries. There's so much to learn,

1:13.0

so much to discover. There are libraries of things to read about. Every day brings countless news stories to follow. Do UFOs exist? What's

1:18.2

going on with this scandal or that one? Who do you think is to blame for this or that?

1:22.3

And while the Stoics were certainly curious and intellectual people, they tried to ignore a lot of that.

1:27.1

Why? Because they had plenty of

1:29.4

other questions they needed answers to first, questions that pertain more to self-awareness and

1:35.1

self-actualization than being informed. In fact, I am dealing with those more important issues,

1:42.2

Seneca wrote, the ones that soothe the mind. And I investigate

1:45.4

myself first and then, he said, the cosmos. Look, the man was a plugged-in power broker who also

1:53.5

published a multi-volume series on natural history and biology. So he was hardly ignorant. He just

1:57.9

tried to remind himself that his first child was to understand himself. It to solve the problems of living, before he then distracted himself with the issues of the

2:06.4

universe. In our very busy, very noisy and very confusing modern world, this is a great model to

2:15.0

follow. We ought to investigate ourselves first. Get to the bottom of what's

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