Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.

On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading

a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in the

Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman.

And so today we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Marks,

Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to do

your best to turn these words into works.

3-Late Words is back for another season exclusively on Amazine Music.

We're asked people to bring in three words of meaning and significance to their lives,

and we use that as a springboard for conversation.

And then at the end of the show we ask them for a word that they'll be happy never to

hear again.

So that's three little words we've made, John Bishop and Tony Pitts listen to it every

Friday exclusively on Amazine Music.

We don't see the full picture.

History is a lie.

It is written by the victors, as the saying goes, which means the picture it produces

is inherently biased by a particular point of view.

It's also biased towards the things we know about by our common knowledge.

But what about all those events that occurred in darkness without any witnesses?

One of the most insidious biases that these events produce is that the history that gets

reflected back to us is through the prejudices of its time.

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