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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

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How to travel through time. Obviously time travel in the strictest sense is not possible.

We can't go back to second century Rome and visit Marcus Aurelius. We can't have dinner with Socrates in ancient Greece.

But there is a way, a pretty magical way as the writer Adam Rubin explained to me on the Daily Stoic Podcast a while back that we can travel to the future or at least speak to the future by doing the work we do right now.

Think about Marcus Aurelius who ascended to the throne at age 40. He was not alone when this happened. You see, because 23 years earlier he had begun training for this moment.

In a sense his past self was there with him in the form of the wisdom he had passed along to his future self all those years before.

Think of all the blows that befell Seneca. He was at least luckier than some. His past self via pre-meditashio morum had prepared his future self for exactly such an occurrence.

Each day we have this ability to send a message to the future. The decision to get up early to eat well to spend a few quiet but meaningful moments with someone we love.

These are all things that whatever the future holds we will look back on and be grateful to our past selves for if we could just muster the discipline to send that message forward through our actions now.

If we can we'll wonder many years from now how did they know I was going to need this. We'll think how perfect.

We won't be able to thank them of course but we can pay it forward. We can get to work sending the next message, making the next contribution to our future selves.

Hey it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Just got back from Miami yesterday.

Was there very briefly to give a talk. Man totally different, totally different universe but it was nice to get in the sun and go for a run on the beach.

Probably as different a place in the United States as you can get from Miami is Iowa. I've only been to Iowa once I gave a talk in Des Moines a few years ago. I had a library which was a fun little experience.

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