Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

They felt the same way as you. They were scared, they were nervous, they were frustrated,

they were confused, they were frustrated, they were confused, they

were tired. It's easy to think that the ancient Greeks and Romans were somehow very different than us,

their lives far removed from our own. Of course, what a great historian is able to do is make

it clear how untrue that is. As John Meacham has said, our ancestors did not dwell

in some land called history or the past. Like all of us, they dwelt in a vivid, living, chaotic

present. Seneca and Marcus Aurelius and Cato were all concerned about their declining institutions.

They stressed about new technology. They wondered

if it was the beginning of the end of their country. They dealt with wars and natural disasters

and fads and trends. But unlike us, as we read about these historical events, they did not

know how it would end. They did not know whether they were doing the right thing or not.

They were taking it day by day,

doing their best, which is all we can do, which is what we must do. Like them, we have to keep

showing up, keep serving, keep trying to do the right thing in difficult times. That's what

every generation is asked to do, to play our part without knowing how the story ends.

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