Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

It's right there. Take it. It's right there. It's not under lock and key. It's not secret knowledge. There's

an unlimited amount. They're making more and more of it every day. It's there for everyone and

anyone, and yet what do most people do? They ignore it. Epicita said that it's impossible to learn

that what you think you already know. Truman said that the only thing

new in the world is the history you don't know. These two insights combine. You can't learn history

that you don't take the time to look at that you think you already understand. History is full of

men and women who wrestled with the same problems we are struggling with

today. History helps us avoid the pitfalls they fell into and take advantages of the opportunities

before us. It can keep us from losing our mind over breaking news because we better understand

how the world actually works. What you studied in school is only a start. What you've

read in books is only a start. History must be returned to again and again looked at from every

angle studied from every perspective. We can't be satisfied with just getting the gist of it,

as Marx really said. No, if we really want a benefit, we have to truly understand

what happened and what it means. That's something I talk about in Wisdom Takes Work, looking at

the lives of men and women who didn't ignore history, who studied what came before them,

who learned from it, and used it to make better decisions when it mattered most.

History is right there. Take it. Use it. Let it make you wiser.

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If your gut is not dialed in, everything else struggles to work the way it should.

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