This Is Why You Do It | Be Ruthless To The Things That Don't Matter
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Marcus Aurelius was an all-powerful emperor. No one else was interrogating him, no one else was subjecting him to these hard questions. He knew that if he didn’t do it, no one would.
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| 1:10.5 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcasts. On Friday, we do double duty, not just reading our daily |
| 1:16.2 | meditation, but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic, my book, 366 meditations on wisdom, |
| 1:23.4 | perseverance in the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, |
| 1:28.7 | and literary agent Stephen Hanselman. So today we'll give you a quick meditation from the Stoics |
| 1:34.2 | with some analysis from me, and then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words |
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| 1:53.4 | This is why you do it. |
| 1:56.5 | They lived in disorienting times. |
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