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Hey, I'm Cassie Depeckle, the host of Wunderies Against the Odds. In our next season, Amelia

Earhart wants to make history by flying across the Atlantic alone, but brutal weather and

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic, where each day we read a short passage designed to help

you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's

greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoic.com.

This will make you feel better. It's been rough. We're not meant to be inside this long.

We're not meant to spend this much time with our devices. We're not meant to pause like

this on our jobs, on our businesses, on whatever projects we have been working on. How long

will this continue? No one can say. But there is something you can do to maintain your

mental and physical health. You can get outside and get into nature.

Safely, of course, but there is a reason that governments are opening up beaches and

state parks. It's not so you can go play Smash Ball and Beer Pong. It's so you can go

for one of those wandering walks that Seneca talked about. It's so you can see up close

those stocks of grain bending low that markets are really as beautifully observed. Maybe

see a wild boar running through the underbrush or fruit ripe on the tree. Or looking up at

the stars as he writes and imagine yourself running with them or better actually do run

with them on the beach at night. When we talk about stillness and stillness is the key,

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