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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. On

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Friday, we do double duty, not just

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reading our daily meditation, but also reading

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a passage from the Daily Stoic, my

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book, 366 Meditations

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on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art

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of Living, which I wrote with

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my wonderful collaborator, translator, and

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literary agent, Steven Hanselman. So today

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we'll give you a quick meditation

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from the Stoics with some analysis

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from me, and then we'll

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send you out into the world to

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turn these words into works. Listen

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to your own