No Man Ever Reads The Same Book Twice | The Sphere of Choice
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks about the importance of re-reading the greats, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:31.3 | Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast. |
| 0:33.9 | Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoodx, illustrated with stories |
| 0:39.2 | from history, current events and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 0:44.2 | And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoodx |
| 0:48.2 | intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave |
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| 0:57.0 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:00.1 | Marcus really says at the beginning of meditations that one of the things he's most proud of |
| 1:05.0 | is that anytime anyone needed anything, he was in a position to be charitable, to be generous. |
| 1:11.4 | Generosity, giving back, serving the common good. |
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| 1:27.4 | charitable organizations and recommending only a few of the highest impact evidence back |
| 1:32.4 | charities they found for you to donate to over 50,000 donors, including myself have |
| 1:38.6 | used give well to donate more than $750 million, rigorous evidence suggests that these donations |
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