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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic Podcast.

On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic texts,

audiobooks that we like here or recommend here at Daily Stoic,

and other long-form wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy,

and most importantly, that you're able to apply it to your actual life.

Thank you for listening.

How can we be better in 2026? How can we do better and be better? How can we be more virtuous in

2026? That's what I want to talk about tonight. How we can try to do and be better in the year

ahead? Because that's what the philosophy is really about.

That's what it's for.

The idea from the Stoics is that it will be a chance to practice those key virtues, courage, discipline, and justice and wisdom.

So we should start with courage.

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