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Good morning, Procopton. Glad you're here with me this morning. Today we're going to jump into

meditation number 38 from book number four, but before we do that, I want to remind you about the

Stoic journaling program, which you can learn more about at journaling.com. There's a link in the

show notes of this episode to that, and you can go check it out.

I won't say more, other than this is perhaps the stoic community you've been looking for,

especially if you're interested in the idea of guided journaling.

Meditation number 34 from book four reads as follows.

Examine men's ruling principles, even those of the wise, what kind of things they avoid, and what kind they pursue.

You can learn a lot about people by examining how they think, not literally how they think,

no one can see your thoughts or your reason, but we can see the outcomes of how people think and reason,

and guess, sometimes well, sometimes less well, why they're behaving the way they are. We should

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