You Need This Trait To Live Your Best Life | Focus On The Present Moment

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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We have to be willing to question. We have to be willing to try new things…or we’ll never get better.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Daily Stoic early and ad free right now.
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0:11.6	You can freeze your card if you misplace it.
0:14.2	Whilst you search behind the sofa, blame the dog, run upstairs, run downstairs,
0:18.8	empty your bag, look behind the sofa again,
0:22.8	only to realise it's in your back pocket.
0:25.4	Curse quietly under your breath and unfreeze your card,
0:26.8	shove everything back in your bag,
0:30.1	take a deep breath, smile and run for the boss.
0:33.7	Freeze and unfreeze your card at the touch of a button.
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0:48.1	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
0:53.6	you do. And at the beginning of the week, we try to help you be better at what you do.
0:59.4	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,
1:04.4	to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.
1:07.4	So let's get into it.
1:20.5	Okay. So let's get into it. You need this trait to live your best life.
1:24.4	We were raised a certain way.
1:26.5	We were taught a certain way. It's always been done a certain
1:29.8	way. So we just keep on doing it. And this is a tragedy. Too many people, Seneca,
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