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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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We can keep being the person we’ve always been…or we can change. That’s the choice of life, the Stoics believed.

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1:17.5	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
1:24.1	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
1:31.2	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
1:36.5	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
1:52.7	For more, visit dailystoic.com. This is the time for a fresh start. As winter's grip loosens, some uncomfortable truths begin to emerge in the newfound spring sunlight.
2:21.3	The bad habits we accumulated to get through the dark months, those inefficiencies and practices that claim too much of our time, those messes we've allowed to pile up in our houses and our minds. It's all there, will we have the courage to face it?
2:38.5	Or will we, as Marx really said, of those animals at the games, bloodied and wounded, struggle on
2:44.1	to fight again the same way? We can keep being the person we've always been, or we can change.
2:52.7	That's the choice of life, the Stoics believed.
2:55.8	The poet Philip Larkin said that the green and growth of spring was nature's way of reminding us to begin afresh, afresh, afresh.
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