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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each weekday we bring you a

Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short

passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life and on Wednesdays

We talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known and obscure

Fascinating and powerful with them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and

Also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors

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Told you guys now I'm writing this book on justice the third book in the

Cardinal Virtue series first was courage is calling next game discipline is destiny

Both those are available if you haven't read them I would love for you to but now I'm working on what I think it's the most challenging

but also the most inspiring of the virtues and

I've just loved I talked about this with my guest today

I've loved living with these characters because they make me a better person reading about Martin Luther King reading about

Gandhi

Reading about Truman reading about these figures from history that they make you bigger they make you better and so I've

Long been a fan of today's guest

His book first principles. I've had him on the podcast twice to talk about is an incredible book

One of the few new titles that I have added to the painted porch

I've raved about it a bunch times if you want to study what the founders of America were studying as

They started this country

You should go to the first principles what their first principles were what they were basing those ideas on and as it happens

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