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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStood.com.

Things are not that different. We live in the glorious future. Yet somehow it is exactly the same as the past.

The scourge of the ancient world pirates, Pompey fought them in Cato's time, bandits and highwaymen, countless Romans suffered their depredations.

A Petita status house broken into. Plagues, Marcus Aurelius lived through a decade and a half of one, likely dying of it himself.

Today, pirates still travel the seas off the coast of Africa and accepted reality of global trade. Cars are still flagged down on roads and robbed. Puerto Rico, for instance, has a particular problem with Uber and Uber Eats drivers being targeted.

Houses are still broken into. We are living as you read this through a massive pandemic that governments have been powerless to stop. Such is life.

The same thing happening over and over again as Marcus Aurelius pointed out. It's the same winds repeating circling the earth, returning again. As the Bible says, the more things change, the more they say.

Goes the expression.

What does it mean? It doesn't mean anything except to remind us that we are following these 2000-year-old strategies which themselves have roots that go back further.

Humans haven't changed. Our problems haven't really changed. We're just as flawed as we were back in Rome and Greece, just as vulnerable to fate.

So we do this work. We do this reading. We prepare ourselves for what is to come.

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American born businessman George Cohan, the founder of McDonald's Canada, was never satisfied with the status quo. Throughout his career, George was always searching for new ways to innovate and revolutionize the way he did business.

At McDonald's, that innovative spirit let him to do something truly extraordinary.

Hi, I'm Lindsey Graham, host of Wondery Show Business Movers. We tell the true stories of the business leaders who risked it all, the critical moments that define their journey and the ideas that transformed the way we live our lives. In our latest series, George Cohan gives up his career as a Chicago attorney to open the first McDonald's fast food restaurant in Canada.

But as George moves up the McDonald's corporate ladder, a chance meeting with members of the Russian Olympic Committee gives George an opportunity to shake up the status quo once again. In the midst of the Cold War, George sets out to open the first McDonald's behind the Iron Curtain. Find out how. Follow business movers wherever you get your podcasts and you can listen ad free on Amazon Music or the Wondery app.

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