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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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We choose what truly counts as an obstacle. We have the power.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to The Daily Stoic early and ad free right now.
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0:10.0	When we launched the Daily Stoic, we didn't know what it would become.
0:13.6	It just started as an email list.
0:15.5	And then I had an idea for a print, and then I had the idea for the Momentumori coin.
0:19.5	And then I had to figure out how I would
0:21.3	actually get that to people. And Shopify was the obvious choice. That's who we have used here at
0:27.6	Daily Stoic since at least 2018. We even use Shopify in my bookstore at the Painted Porch. There's
0:34.5	a reason that we use it, and millions of businesses worldwide do as well.
0:39.3	Shopify gives you complete control over your business, your brand. You don't have to learn design or
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1:14.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
1:20.5	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
1:27.7	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy
1:31.6	that has guided some of history's greatest men and women
1:36.2	to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
1:41.8	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
1:49.2	For more, visitdailystoic.com. Epictetus's most powerful line is about how it's not things that upset us, but what we think about things that does all the damage.
2:14.6	What he really meant is that our sense of what an obstacle or a disadvantage or a
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