This Practice Will Define Your Year | 7 Stoic Mantras That Will Change Your Life
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 14 January 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Epictetus said that by writing, reading, and speaking our philosophical journal, we keep the teachings top of mind and are better able to follow them. But only if you start. Just start.
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| 0:13.5 | Every new year brings you a bunch of blank pages waiting to be filled in, 365, 366 if it's a leap year. |
| 0:22.7 | What will you put in your pages this year? |
| 0:27.8 | And then also, what is the author, fate, as a Stokes would call it, have in store for you, right? |
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| 1:07.8 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 1:16.4 | On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these Stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual lives. |
| 1:23.3 | Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:33.9 | Thank you. Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy. You must practice this ritual this year. |
| 1:39.3 | Marcus Aurelius was a busy man. |
| 1:41.2 | He was a smart and able and talented man. |
| 1:43.9 | So why did he need to spend so many |
| 1:45.8 | precious hours in his tent writing by the lamplight, practicing philosophy in his journals? |
| 1:51.1 | It wasn't for our benefit. No, he never expected meditations would see an audience. He was writing |
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