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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast.

On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the

Stoic texts, audiobooks that we like here or recommend here at Daily Stoak and other long-form wisdom that you

can chew on on this relaxing weekend. We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy

and most importantly that you're able to apply it to your actual life. Thank you for listening.

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoetic podcast. Back in,

because it was December, I did a talk, I talked about this, I went to the White House, and I was talking to a group of people who were transitioning out of one administration, right? Everyone, at the end of the presidential administration has to go find a new job. It's just the nature of politics. And then a couple weeks later, I did a virtual talk to this company called Randstad, which is the world's largest staffing agency. They were trying to motivate and

help their employees think about sort of going into the new year. But I was thinking a lot about

this idea of this

unfortunate reality. So many people find themselves in right now, which is like they're having

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