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

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

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

history's greatest men and women help you learn from them,

to follow in their example, and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline

and justice and wisdom. For more, visit daily stoic.com. Life is a thinking person's game.

Life is hard.

Life is complicated.

Life is full of choices.

It's full of dilemmas.

It's full of complex problems and confusing situations.

It's full of obstacles and opportunities.

It's full of grifters and liars and con artists and smooth talkers, as Marcus Urelius said. It's also full of wonderful, fascinating, and incredible ideas and

topics that you can't possibly be satisfied with just getting the gist of. In short, life is a thinking person's game, and it's why the

Stoics stressed the pursuit of wisdom, because we need it. We need it right now, and we'll need it

later. We'll need it when we face ethical dilemmas. We'll need it when we're tested by anger or greed or fear.

We'll need it when we decide whether to speak up or stay silent, whether to act or hold back,

whether to endure or change. You cannot have a good life without wisdom. Not only will problems

overwhelm you, even eat you alive, but you'll leave so much

unexplored, you will only do a fraction of what you are capable of doing. Yet this wisdom,

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