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The Daily Stoic

This Is The Year! | Give Thanks

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

4.64.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

We all have vices. We all have flaws. We all have things we know we want to change.

Make this the year. This is the year you drive the bad habits out. This is the year you follow through. This is the year you demand the best of and for yourself.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.

0:07.2

On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading

0:13.1

a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and

0:19.1

the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman.

0:25.0

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Mark

0:29.8

Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me.

0:33.2

And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

0:44.7

Hey, prime members, you can listen to The Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon

0:49.2

music.

0:50.2

Download the app today.

0:55.2

We all have Fises.

0:57.5

We all have Flos.

0:58.5

We have things we know we want to change.

1:01.9

What happens?

1:02.9

Nothing happens.

1:04.6

This is true for everyone, even Martin Luther King Jr.

1:08.4

One day King said, we tell ourselves, I'm going to rise up and drive this evil out.

1:12.2

I know it's wrong.

1:13.2

It's destroying my character and embarrassing my family.

1:16.2

But then, he said, at last the day came and you made a New Year's resolution that you

1:21.8

would get rid of that whole base evil.

1:23.9

And then the next year came around and you were still doing that same old evil thing.

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