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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.

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Do better where you can.

When we look at the lives of a great man like Marcus Aurelius or a great woman like the Catholic activist Dorothy Day, it's easy to be intimidated.

They seem to always know what to do and seem to always do it regardless of the stakes.

It's easy to be discouraged when you hold their examples up as inspiration.

It seems impossible to live up to their standards.

And easy to forget, of course, that they didn't always live up to their own.

The same is true for stoicism as a whole.

The philosophy is so aspirational, so idealistic, that given the flaws we each carry,

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