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The Daily Stoic

This Is Why You Do It | Be Ruthless To The Things That Don't Matter

The Daily Stoic

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

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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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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

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with some analysis from me, and then we'll send you out into the world to turn these words

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into works.

1:53.4

This is why you do it.

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They lived in disorienting times.

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