Leave It Better Than You Found It | Reduce Wants, Increase Happiness
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Ryan talks about how you can improve your life, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Wendery Plus. |
| 0:03.0 | Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person. |
| 0:07.6 | You want to know the latest sports news, but don't want to sit through a two-hour podcast. |
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| 0:16.7 | Listen to the lead starting 5 on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:27.3 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:29.9 | Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic's illustrated with stories |
| 0:35.2 | from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 0:40.2 | And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic |
| 0:44.2 | intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave |
| 0:49.1 | you with, to journal about whatever it is you're happy to be doing. |
| 0:53.0 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:56.3 | Give it better than you found it. |
| 0:59.0 | When Octavian took power in 27 BC, he was advised by two Stoic teachers, Arius and Athena |
| 1:04.7 | Doris. |
| 1:05.7 | You can read about them in the lives of the Stoics, actually. |
| 1:08.9 | His reign started off slow, but by the end he had transformed Rome from an ailing and |
| 1:13.5 | sadly failing Republic into a functioning imperial state. |
| 1:18.0 | Augustus, as Octavian came to be called, was not perfect and neither was Rome. |
| 1:22.5 | But both were better off than they were at the end of Rome's second civil war. |
| 1:27.0 | As Octavian would say at the end of his life, he had found Rome a city of bricks and left |
| 1:32.2 | it as an empire of marble. |
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