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🗓️ 6 October 2022
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Epictetus said that to live a good life, you have to make good choices. You are what your choices make you, nothing more and nothing less.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:07.2 | On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading |
| 0:13.1 | a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in the |
| 0:19.2 | Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman. |
| 0:25.0 | And so today we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the stoics from Epititus Marks |
| 0:29.9 | Relious, Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to |
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