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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

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

to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

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When have you been that?

That person you just can't stand, that person in traffic who won't get out of the way,

that person on the airplane who keeps bumping your seat or whose stuff is spilling in your area, that person talking loudly on their phone at a restaurant or on the train.

Ugh, right?

Don't they realize how annoying they are?

Probably not any more than you did when you were that person.

And that's what we have to

realize when there is someone who drives us nuts, that we are that someone to someone else,

or have been at one time or another. In meditations, one of the things that Marcus Reelius

reminds himself to think of whenever someone does him wrong is all the times that he had acted

like that.

We were talking on our phone because the call was important.

We were driving poorly because we were lost or we'd just gotten terrible news.

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