Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

Well, on Thursdays, we not only read the daily meditation,

but we answer some questions from listeners and fellow Stoics.

We're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are. Some of these come from my talks, some of these come

from Zoom sessions that we do with Daily Stoic Life members or as part of the challenges.

Some of them are from interactions I have on the street

when there happened to be someone there recording.

But thank you for listening, and we hope this is of use to you.

The most valuable real estate in the world.

People spend a lot of money to buy nice land, they want to be in a good

neighborhood with good schools, they want to have a beautiful view. Just look at what

happened during the pandemic when people rush to outbid each other for houses outside of

major cities because they wanted safety in space and a change of scenery.

For centuries armies have clashed over territory, some of it valuable, some of it not,

willing to pay in blood for control over a piece of dirt. Meanwhile some of the most valuable real

estate in the world sits ignored. What's that? Well we referred to it in the girl who would be

free as the empire between your ears. How many people spend an

enormous amount to keep up their estates but let their brain fall into disrepair? How many of them

protect their property, as Seneca said, but let people waste their time or influence their choices.

Yes, land is valuable. They aren't making any more of it after all. And yes, you want to have

a roof over your head, and yes, nations must protect their sovereign territory but the Stoics

remind us that the greatest empire is within us between our ears inside that

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