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The Daily Stoic

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Education, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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During this season of spring cleaning, it’s worth pondering: How often do we organize not just our physical spaces, but our minds, routines, and assumptions?

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1:24.1	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
1:31.2	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
1:36.6	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.
1:52.6	For more, visit dailystoic.com. Spring is the most beautiful of the seasons.
2:10.6	Suddenly after a dreary winter, the colors come back, the birds are out, the days last longer.
2:16.4	The breeze is light and the air is cool.
2:18.9	But as Philip Larkin's bittersweet poem reminds us, beneath this turning of seasons is a kind of
2:24.6	darkness. As the poem goes, the trees are coming into leaf like something almost being said.
2:31.2	The recent buds relax and spread. Their greenness is kind of grief. The inherent
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