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Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stood Podcast.

On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, but also reading

a passage from the book, The Daily Stood, 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance in the

art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman.

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the stoics from Epititus Markis

Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me.

And then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

Your heart shouldn't be getting harder as you go.

The old joke, which dates back to the 1870s, is that if you're not a liberal when you're young,

you have no heart.

But if you're still a liberal when you're older, you have no brain.

Now we can put any partisan beliefs aside and see how this is at least partly true.

When you're young, it's easy to believe in the inherent goodness of the world because

you haven't actually experienced any of it yet.

You are naive.

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