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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Guilt is about the past and the past is the one thing we cannot change. All we can do is do better now.

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Transcript

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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.
0:58.8	We look back on things that we clearly messed up.
1:00.3	We were too preoccupied.
1:01.1	We were too harsh.
1:01.7	We were wrong.
1:02.2	We didn't know.
1:05.3	And because we messed up, we feel guilty.
1:07.3	We regret what could have been.
1:08.0	We're mad at ourselves.
1:09.8	We wallow in pity or shame.
1:12.0	Dr. Edith Egger, the Holocaust survivor, cut through all of this with her graceful bluntness on the Daily Stoic podcast. She's been on
1:18.3	twice. Both episodes are must listens. As she said, if I knew then what I know now, I will have done
1:26.5	things differently.
1:28.6	That is the end of that, she said.
1:30.9	And so it must be for us.
1:32.3	Give yourself the gift of the present moment, Mark Surrealis wrote in Meditations,
1:36.5	seize this second chance.
	...

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