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

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

Change is hard. That's why we avoid it. It's easier when things stay the same, when we have familiar ways and routines, our morning coffee, our job, the way we learned it, where no news is good news.

Change, on the other hand, requires adjustment. It requires acceptance. It requires us to change. So naturally, yeah, we avoid it. We fear it.

But as Marcus Aurelius points out to those of us who are frightened by change, nothing could

exist without it. And you know what else change is? It's growth, or at least it is the

opportunity for growth.

Without change, we stagnate. Our minds grow complacent, ignorant to new ideas. Our bodies grow weak

from disuse. We remain stuck. We lack clarity. We as part of the world, part of nature, part of the

logos need to change in order to maintain our

well-being. With the new cycle of spring of regrowth and renewal finally upon us, it is time to

change. It's time to listen to the rhythm of the seasons, to begin afresh, to grow back stronger than

before.

Thank you. to grow back stronger than before. I don't know if you've seen a video or a talk from me lately, but you can tell I'm kind of on a

sweater kick. I don't know why exactly that started, but the problem with this sweater

kick is like finding ones that actually

look good that I like and I'm not paying like an absurd, let's call it, unstoic amount of money on

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Just great sweaters and clothes that you'll like. And you've probably seen me wear them in some

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