This Is Real Time Travel | The View From Above
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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The ancients did not just leave us words on papyrus—they left us a gift that keeps on giving through the ages.
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad free right now. |
| 0:05.0 | Just join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:09.2 | One of the best decisions I ever made here with Daily Stoic was the decision to use Shopify. |
| 0:15.3 | Shopify is the backend for the Daily Stoic store. |
| 0:18.3 | If you've ever done our courses, those are done through Shopify. |
| 0:22.2 | If you've ever bought a signed book from me, you've done that through Shopify. |
| 0:25.4 | If you've ever bought anything from the painted porch, that's also through Shopify. |
| 0:30.3 | Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% |
| 0:35.5 | of all e-commerce here in the U.S. Everyone from Mattel and Jim Shark, |
| 0:39.8 | including a bunch of up-and-coming brands that you haven't even heard of yet, they're all getting |
| 0:43.8 | their start with Shopify. Designing your site and your store is easy. They've got hundreds of |
| 0:49.0 | ready to use templates to help you build a beautiful online store to match your style. If you're ready to sell, |
| 0:55.6 | you are ready for Shopify and you can sign up for a $1 per month trial and start selling today |
| 1:01.3 | at Shopify.com.uk.uk slash stoic. That's Shopify.com.com.uk slash stoic. |
| 1:20.9 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 1:28.1 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some |
| 1:33.2 | of history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 1:41.4 | and to start your day off with the little dose of courage and discipline and |
| 1:47.8 | justice and wisdom. For more, still a primitive time. Wheels were made of wood, pipes were lined with lead. Light came from fire. Roads were made of dirt and stone. Books were copied by hand one word at a time. Yet the ancients, they were marvels of technology. Not just compared to the past, but compared to today. After all, the ancients invented time travel, didn't they? They knew how to bring people back |
| 2:36.0 | from the dead, didn't they? As we've said before, that's what books are, a way to visit the past, |
| 2:42.6 | a way to talk to the dead. In her fascinating and I think must-read book, Papyrus, |
| 2:48.5 | Arrine Vallejo rhapsodizes about the library of Alexandria. It was, |
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