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

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🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Before, you were scared. Before, you were soft. Before, you were dependent. Before, you were so many things.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:18.8	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:40.3	For more, visitdailystoic.com. We are better than before.
0:58.7	Before you were scared, before you were soft, before you were dependent, before you were so many things.
1:08.0	But after, after the breakup, after the bankruptcy, after the pandemic, after those
1:13.3	rough couple years, now you are capable of so much more. You are stronger. You are braver. You are
1:20.7	more independent. Did you pick up a couple scars along the way? Was it painful and exhausting?
1:26.7	Sure, of course. And you never would have
1:29.4	chosen to go through it. But you did. And now you are better for it. Seneca had pity for people
1:36.5	who'd never gone through things. It is good, he said, that we have been knocked around and bruised
1:41.5	and bludied in the ring. It has taught us what we are capable of.
1:45.5	It's made us capable of more. So the next time you are going through something hard, next time you
1:51.2	feel like you have been beaten down, remember, this is where strength comes from. This is how we grow.
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