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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these Stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual lives.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy.

Thank you. Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy. Want to be successful, be this.

People want to be successful.

They look for an edge.

They look at what successful people have done throughout history, and then they try to reverse engineer those strategies. They look for models. And it makes sense, then, that people

would look to Stoicism for help with this. Many of the Stoics were successful. Seneca was. Marcus

Reelis was the most powerful man in the world. And in this centuries since, the philosophy has been part of the toolkit

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