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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day 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.

Those who read little, no little, was there a stoic who didn't love reading? It'd be hard to name one. The last thing Kato did before he died was read. It's incredible really. Even as Caesar had destroyed the Republic, the Civil War was lost.

And his inevitable suicide just hours away. Kato took the time to read some Plato twice. He was still learning up until the very end.

Experience is a key component of wisdom, of course, but there are very few truly wise people out there who do not read, who are not lovers of books.

There's a Latin saying he who reads little nose little. It's true to become wise. We have to open our minds to the vast accumulation of experiences that have come before us to not read widely, as General Manus has said, is to be functionally illiterate.

Crasipus loved the play Medea so much that he quoted from it so much that he joked one of his essays was the Medea of crucifix. In fact, one can't pick up the works of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, even the sangs of epictetus without being struck at how intimately familiar these philosophers were with the great writing, fiction, essays, books, and histories of their time.

It's an example, a tradition really that we have to continue to follow, given how much wonderful writing has been published since the time of the ancient Stoics, 20 centuries of books, it is profoundly arrogant and wasteful not to take advantage of it.

Marcus Aurelius would have killed to have access to the psychological research at your fingertips. If Crasipus worshiped Medea, then think about what he'd think about you having not picked up Shakespeare besides those few begrudging pages in high school.

In high school, Kato spent his last few precious minutes reading about Socrates, and you can't bear to pull yourself away from your phone.

We read to learn, we read to lead, if we don't read much, we don't know much, and if we don't sink wisdom, we won't find it.

Hey everyone, as you know, reading books is a huge part of my life. They've helped me accomplish my goals and become a better person.

For me, you probably feel you're not getting all you can out of the books that you read, and maybe you feel like you're kind of reading the same books over and over again that you're stuck in a rut, or that your reading habits could be elevated, taken to a new level.

Well, we've come out with a new 13-day challenge to help you do just that. It's called read to lead.

We've got 13 days of stoke inspired challenges to help you take your reading to the next level.

It comes with exercises and a new reading list each day and some really awesome bonus material. You can check it out at dailystoke.com slash reading.

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