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🗓️ 28 July 2025

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“Why do you wait?” Seneca asks us. “Wisdom comes haphazard to no man.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:18.8	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:40.3	For more, visitdailystoic.com. No one can give you this. We ask where people got their degree. We ask where someone went to school.
1:04.0	We hope someone will volunteer to mentor us. This is wrong. And education isn't something anyone can give you. It's something you get for yourself. It's something you take. It's not somewhere you went to school for classes for a lesson, but somewhere you are going. It's not something you did. It's something you are doing. By his own telling, we're told that Seneca took to his education
1:30.1	with gusto, that he laid siege to the classroom and was the first to arrive and the last to leave it.
1:36.4	Cato was famous for his philosophical dinners, inviting the smartest and wisest minds of the ancient
1:41.5	world to discuss the timeless trials of everyday life.
1:45.8	Scipio Emilianus, the great scholar warrior of Rome, was ever engaged in the pursuit of arms or his studies,
1:53.3	an ancient historian tells us, he was either training his body by exposing it to dangers or his mind by learning.
2:02.8	And of course, there is a famous story about an elderly Marcus Aurelius spotted leaving his palace in Rome. Where are you going? A friend asked.
2:09.6	I'm off to see Sextus the philosopher, he replied, to learn that which I do not yet know.
2:16.2	It never stops.
2:19.6	It is never handed to you.
2:22.8	No, you must get wisdom yourself.
2:27.8	Indeed, you cannot find a stoic who did not take their education into their own hands,
2:30.9	who did not give themselves a great education,
2:33.6	even if they had access to find teachers, and you'll find that they all
2:35.0	remain forever a student of life and literature. Why do you wait? Seneca asks us, wisdom comes
2:42.3	haphazard to no man. The reality is there's no shortcut to wisdom, no app, no AI bot, no secret
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