The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived… | Some Simple Rules
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 12 July 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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We’re in an election year here, not just in America but across the world. Let us learn from Seneca.
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| 1:12.2 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Friday we do double duty not just reading our daily meditation, |
| 1:19.9 | but also reading a passage from The Daily Stoic, my book, 366 meditations on Wisdom, |
| 1:26.3 | Perseverance in the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, |
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| 1:37.4 | with some analysis from me, |
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