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, visit Dailystoic.com. The moment when this is more precious than gold.

There will come a moment for no life is without them.

It could be a moment of great difficulty or great triumph or great temptation.

It could be a moment where all these stresses are mixed

together. It could be more than a moment, a string of moments, a period of opportunities and choices

of responsibility and high stakes where you will need to be at your best and to be the best.

And here, there, what will you need?

You won't need answers, as Epictetus once told a student who is asking him for specific

instructions for life.

You will need, as he explained, adaptability to circumstances.

You will need wisdom, that ability to see clearly, to understand fully, to decide rightly.

In this moment, you will find out whether you have trained sufficiently, whether you have made

the necessary deposits, because here, here you will need to make significant withdrawals.

Think of Marcus Aurelius when he became emperor.

Think of Thrasia navigating the tyranny and disorientation of Nero's regime.

Think of Stockdale thrown in prison. His orders woefully inadequate for the ordeal that he

and his men were facing, having to build a new system, a new framework from

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