Will You Face This Truth?
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 6 March 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Even though we can’t control time or slow it down, even though we can’t control external forces and external events—we can control ourselves, so we can control how we use our time.
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| 0:03.3 | I'm out doing a little speaking gig and didn't say in a hotel, stayed in an Airbnb. |
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| 1:12.3 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, |
| 1:20.1 | courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. |
| 1:26.9 | Spring is the most beautiful of the seasons. Suddenly after a dreary winter, the colors come |
| 1:32.6 | back, the birds are out, the days last longer. The breeze is light and the air is cool. But as |
| 1:38.1 | Philip Larkin's bittersweet poem reminds us, beneath this turning of seasons is a kind of darkness. |
| 1:46.2 | As the poem goes, the trees are coming into leaf like something almost being said. The recent buds relax and spread. Their greenness |
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