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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed

to help you in your everyday life.

Well, on Thursdays we not only read the daily meditation but we answer some questions from

listeners and fellow Stoics we're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are

some of these come from my talks some of these come from Zoom sessions that we do with Daily Stoic Life

members or as part of the challenges. Some of them are from interactions I have on the

street when there happened to be someone there recording.

But thank you for listening and we hope this is of use to you. This is what freedom requires. It's July 4th, 1776. Think about where America was in that moment.

Blood in the streets, a revolution against an empire,

families ripped apart because a war forced them to choose sides. Hopeful successes on the battlefield were

repeatedly followed by dispiriting defeats. The uncertainty of victory

shrouded in the certainty of death and misery and suffering for what could be years.

They were lucky. It had been only a year since George Washington assumed command of the Continental Army,

and the hardest years of fighting were still ahead for the loose coalition of Patriots fighting

for self-determination. Fighting, as we would call it today for their country.

All of this, while there wasn't even a real country to speak of,

America was just an idea.

We were still nearly 13 years away from the election of General Washington

as the first American president.

In fact on July 4th 1776 you were more likely to call yourself a Virginia or a

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