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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women

to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, and to start your day off

with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

For more, visitdailystoic.com.

Run down the list. Where are they now? It's been generations upon generations now. For thousands and thousands of years, human beings have been doing the same things, as the Stoics observed. They've been chasing power and fame. They've been accumulating stuff. They've been arguing over trivial things.

They've been trying to impress other people.

Where are those people now?

Marcus Aurelius asked in an important passage in meditations.

Where are they now?

Run through the list, he tells himself.

Run through the list of the big, powerful historical figures

you knew personally. Where are they now? Gone. Already forgotten. Already worm food. He dismisses many of

these figures, perhaps alluding to Hadrian or Nero or Caligula, as people who worked in vain,

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