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🗓️ 9 May 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Ryan talks about the importance of constantly learning that which you do not yet know, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:08.7	Hey everyone. This is Dr. Rongan Chatechee from the Built to Thrive Podcast.
0:13.2	And I promise you that if you give me just five minutes of your time, I'm gonna help you revolutionize your life.
0:19.9	My aim is to inspire and empower you with simple daily hacks that will help you feel better and thrive.
0:26.6	Check out my latest Built to Thrive episode, streaming now, only on Amazon Music.
0:37.6	3.0 Words is back for another season exclusively on Amazon Music.
0:41.6	The lowest people to bring in three words of meaning and significance to their lives.
0:46.6	And we use that as a springboard for conversation.
0:49.6	And then at the end of the show, we ask them for a word that they'll be happy never to hear again.
0:53.6	So that's 3.0 Words. We've made John Bishop and Tony Pitts listen to it every Friday exclusively on Amazon Music.
1:08.6	Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoodx.
1:15.6	Illustrated with stories from history, current events and literature to help you be better at what you do.
1:20.6	And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of stoic intention for the week,
1:26.6	something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.
1:33.6	So let's get into it.
1:35.6	You should never stop studying.
1:38.6	As he recovered from his wounds, a young soldier named Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. began keeping a list in a black leather journal, all the books he had read.
1:46.6	Books on law, philosophy, sociology, religion, history, economics, poetry, scientist, science.
1:53.6	He read Montanhas, Shakespeare, Hemingway, Homer, Proust, Proust, Epictetus, an astonishing book he said, among many, many other books.
2:03.6	And when Holmes died at the age of 93, the list held the names of more than 4,000 books.
2:09.6	That sounds like a lot, but it's actually only a little more than a book a week over the course of his life.
2:17.6	Senica was right, acquiring just a few bits of wisdom a day really adds up, not just in terms of quantity, but also in terms of quality.
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