How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I bid the bills? How do I bid the bills?

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the need to know. How do I know? Because I'm living with cancer too. That's why I

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Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Seruti and we are the hosts of a Red Handed, a weekly true crime

podcast. Every week on Red Handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases,

but we also dig into those you might not have heard of, like the Nephiles Royal Massacre

and the Nithory Child Sacrifices. Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the

extremes of human behaviour. Find, download and binge Red Handed wherever you listen to your podcasts.

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcasts. On Friday, we do double duty, not just reading our daily

meditation, but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic, my book, 366 Meditations on wisdom,

Perseverance in the Heart of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator,

and literary agent, Stephen Hanselman. So today, we'll give you a quick meditation from the Stoics

with some analysis from me and then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words in

Torx.

Rule the empire between your ears. It'd be nice to be the head honcho. It would be cool to be the

owner. It'd be nice to look out over a vast bit of territory and say, this is all mine.

This is the fantasy. This is the ambition that drives so many of us that drove so many in the

ancient world too. But as the Stoics noted, when we pursue power control or money, we end up neglecting

what's right in front of us. Epictetus, who was a slave, looked at Nero's court and saw rich and

famous men who were less free than he was because they spent all their energy trying to get more than

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