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Welcome back to practical stoicism.

I'm glad you're here, and I'd like to take a few minutes to thank the incredible number of, I guess, at my age, I can say, young people who are listening.

Your emails are incredibly inspiring to me, very motivating as well. As someone who isn't so old,

he forgets what it's like to be, 16 or 17 years old, struggling to feel whether or not there's a

point to life or a purpose we can create for ourselves, it makes me feel incredibly useful,

that you're reaching out to me for guidance or help with specific struggles.

I want to be clear in saying that I can't give you the right answer or maybe any answer,

but I can give you my opinion and the best advice I can muster, and I would encourage you

to continue to write in when you feel like doing so.

I'd also like to remind everyone that the premium version of

this podcast not only skips the ads and the preamble, but also gives you direct access to me via

an AMA feature that's asked me anything. And when you ask these questions through Supercast,

they're anonymized and other people can see the questions, but not who's asked them.

So your questions can actually help others who may be going through similar situations.

If you'd like to subscribe to the premium feed, which, of course, supports everything I'm doing here

and allows me to do more, you can check for a link to do so in the show notes of this episode,

or you can just go to stoicism.com.

Also, I have two very big pieces of news, one of which I am going to share now, and the other

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