Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast.

Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, illustrated with stories

from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.

And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic

intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave

you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.

So let's get into it.

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You know what's coming.

We worry about the future, about who might win an election, we're watching closely, about

what some foreign leader might do, about the markets and your portfolio, about the climate.

It's so uncertain, we think, unpredictable and potentially overwhelming.

But is it really?

If you've seen the present, Marcus Aurelius writes in his own anxious and scary times,

and you've seen everything, as it's been since the beginning, as it will be forever,

the same substance, the same form, all of it.

And it's not wrong.

All the things you're worried about potentially happening, the future are in fact happening

right now somewhere in the world.

All the things you're not sure you could handle, people have been handling since the beginning

of time.

Nothing new looms, only reruns of what you've already experienced or read about in the

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