Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast.

Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic's illustrated with stories

from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.

And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic

intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave

you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.

So let's get into it.

This is how they found peace and priority.

And explore at Jamestown in the 17th century, a London gentleman during the Stuart period,

an unidentified person with the initials TS who lived during the Renaissance, another

with the initials ER who lived sometime during the 19th century.

We hardly know anything about them.

They almost certainly didn't know each other, but they had two things in common.

First, they are dead.

And second, while they were alive, they each reminded themselves every day that they

would one day be dead.

How do we know?

Because each war a memento mori's signet ring, plagues and wars and massacres aside, people

of the 15th and 16th and 17th centuries dealt with some of the highest infant mortality

rates in history, without vaccines to control illness, mothers buried their newborns if

they survived childbirth themselves.

Infection was a silent killer, healthcare was non-existent.

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