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The Daily Stoic

Stop Waiting To Demand The Best For Yourself | Taking The Bite Out Of It

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

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

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Ryan talks about how people tend to put off making changes and improving their lives, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.8

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0:08.0

Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person.

0:11.7

You want to know the latest sports news, but don't want to sit through a two hour podcast.

0:16.4

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0:20.7

Welcome to the lead starting five on Amazon music or wherever you get your podcast.

0:31.0

Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stood Podcast.

0:34.6

On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading

0:40.6

a passage from the book, The Daily Stood, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance in the

0:46.6

art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman.

0:52.4

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the stoics from Epititus Markis

0:57.3

Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me.

1:00.6

And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

1:07.4

Stop waiting to demand the best for yourself.

1:12.4

Look guys, two days left to sign up for the Daily Stood, New Year, New Year Challenge.

1:17.6

Stop putting it off.

1:18.6

If you're going to do it, let's do it.

1:20.6

I can't wait to see you sign up at dailystood.com slash challenge.

1:25.1

But anyways, here's today's message.

1:28.2

This is that weird time of the year where we start to think about how we want the following

1:32.8

year to go.

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