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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStood.com.

Is this what you spend your life for? Early on in address unknown, a haunting novel about the rise of fascism in Germany in the 1930s, two German entrepreneurs write each other with much affection about their business success.

One line written from one character to the other via letter stops as cold in the way that truth rendered in fiction occasionally can.

Is it for this we spend our lives, he says, to scheme for money and then to spread it publicly? Boom. Isn't it? Isn't that what so many of us are doing?

Santa can remind us that success and wealth are often won at the cost of life. He speaks with great pity of the Romans who slave away managing their slaves, who accumulate great fortunes which they then spend in ordinent amounts of time trying to find ways to display and fritter about.

Marcus Aurelius himself a possessor of great wealth and power would write to himself, especially when he felt self-important, are you afraid of death because you won't be able to do this anymore?

Remember that every dollar you earn costs you time and energy, every minute you spend puffing yourself up or crafting an impressive profile to cut for others is time you can't get back.

Think of the richest people who ever lived. In the end, what did their money get them? Who lives in their estates now? Does anyone even care about the art they bought or the monuments they commissioned for themselves? No.

These things come at the cost of life at the expense of our most precious resource, so spend it wisely.

And look, obviously that's the message of the idea of momento more. You could leave life right now, let that determine what you do and say and think.

I carry that momento more, you medallion in my pocket, as I've said before, which you can check out at store.dailystill.com.

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American born businessman George Cohan, the founder of McDonald's Canada, was never satisfied with the status quo. Throughout his career, George was always searching for new ways to innovate and revolutionize the way he did business. At McDonald's, that innovative spirit let him do something truly extraordinary.

Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondery Show Business Movers. We tell the true stories of the business leaders who risked it all, the critical moments that define their journey and the ideas that transformed the way we live our lives. In our latest series, George Cohan gives up his career as a Chicago attorney to open the first McDonald's fast food restaurant in Canada.

But as George moves up the McDonald's corporate ladder, a chance meeting with members of the Russian Olympic Committee gives George an opportunity to shake up the status quo once again. In the midst of the Cold War, George sets out to open the first McDonald's behind the Iron Curtain. Find out how. Follow business movers wherever you get your podcasts, and you can listen ad free on Amazon Music or the Wondery app.

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I'm Whit Missle Dine, the creator of this is actually happening, a podcast from Wondery that brings you extraordinary true stories of life changing events told by the people who lived them. From a young man that dunes his entire future with one choice to a woman who survived a notorious serial killer, you'll hear their first person account of how they overcame remarkable circumstances.

Each episode is an exploration of the human spirit and personal discovery. These haunting accounts sound like Hollywood movies, but I assure you this is actually happening. Follow this is actually happening wherever you get your podcasts, you can listen ad free on the Amazon Music or Wondery app.