We Are Training For This
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
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When we develop the discipline to prepare our minds and our bodies for hardship, we have the discipline to see the hard times through to the end.
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| 0:31.8 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:40.5 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:47.6 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women |
| 0:56.2 | to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, and to start your day off |
| 1:03.2 | with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
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| 1:11.8 | We are training for this. |
| 1:29.5 | It's good that you train. |
| 1:31.3 | It's good that you lift heavy stuff. |
| 1:32.3 | It's good that you run. |
| 1:34.8 | It's good that you expose yourself to cold and heat. |
| 1:39.1 | There are health benefits to all of this, and it's good to go after them. |
| 1:43.2 | There are mental benefits, too, which is why the stoics were so active. |
| 1:45.6 | Boxing and wrestling and riding and running. We treat the body rigorously, Seneca said, so that it is not disobedient to the mind. |
| 1:53.6 | But ultimately, the reason to challenge yourself is for the challenging situations of life. |
| 2:00.5 | You take care of your body, Socrates said, |
| 2:03.2 | so it can be of service to your country or to a stranger. You train yourself to deal with stress |
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