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

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🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Each of us goes to work every day and deals with obstacles, with difficult people. We deal with stress at home. We have responsibilities in our community. Some of us have other problems still: A divorce. A looming bankruptcy. Maybe we’re on deployment. Maybe we’ve just done a stint in jail.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast.
0:05.7	Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, illustrated with stories
0:11.1	from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.
0:16.0	And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic
0:20.0	intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave
0:25.0	you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.
0:28.9	So let's get into it.
0:58.9	This will sustain you.
1:11.9	Each of us goes to work every day and deals with obstacles, with difficult people.
1:16.4	We deal with stress at home, we have responsibilities in our community.
1:20.5	Some of us have other problems, still a divorce, a looming bankruptcy.
1:24.6	Maybe we're on deployment, maybe we've just done a stint in jail.
1:28.7	In 1513, Machiavelli was in a tough spot that few would envy, but many can relate to.
1:34.9	He was an exile.
1:35.9	He had been stripped of his livelihood and social status.
1:38.8	His country was a political mess.
1:40.8	He was unsure of his next move.
1:43.8	What did he do?
1:44.8	He did what Senica did in a similar position.
1:47.0	He did what Marcus Errelius did in the camps of the Roman frontier.
1:50.6	He did what Zeno did after the shipwreck.
1:53.2	Machiavelli found a way, as Marcus said, to wash off the dust of earthly life.
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