Phil Van Treuren
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My dad used to be a stand-up comic. When I was 13 and having a tough time w/life, his friend
@pattonoswalt
(also a comic, not famous yet) called me. I recall him saying "you won't even remember this shit" that seemed so horrible at the time, and "life gets better."
He was right.
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Reaching base camp today means I'm close to accomplishing a goal I've had for many decades.
I realize that much of my success in life has had to do with luck: the first pic is me in 1917, right after I was accepted at Cornell for biochemistry. That bit of good fortune got me a
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Here's a Stoic meditation that keeps me in the right mindset when things seem tough . . .
𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙙: a spring-fed pool, constantly renewed with fresh, cool water. Unwanted thoughts are leaves falling into the pool; acknowledge them, let the stream carry them away, think
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When driving by certain places that played a role in my past life, I used to get a feeling of dread and think to myself "thank God I'm not THERE anymore." Now, I get a feeling of gratitude and think to myself "thank God I GOT to be there, because it allowed me to be HERE today."
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How would you describe Stoicism in 𝘰𝘯𝘦 sentence? Here's what a bunch of well-known Stoics said! 🏛🔥
Thanks to
@DonJRobertson
@mcgillmd921
@drnancysherman
@DavidFidelerPhD
@TheStoicGym
@JulesEvans11
@ComfortPit
@SharonLebell
@theirishstoic
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Fury is the weak person's idea of strength, and saber-rattling is the simpleton's idea of strategy. Focused calmness wins battles.
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Copies of my latest book arrived today, and I'm 𝘴𝘰 excited to share it with all of you! Signed copies of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘘𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 are now available for purchase on the Stoic Simple website. I hope you love it! 🥳🏛️🔥
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"A beautiful collection of
#Stoic
meditations that unveils a simple and elegant philosophy of life." Get an exclusive SIGNED copy and 25% off 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘘𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴. 🔥🏛️
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🔥 Download my new
#Stoicism
book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘳𝘣𝘢𝘯 𝘌𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘯 for free! Visit this link for your 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 copy:
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Excited to announce that my newest book "A Dog Who Follows Gladly" is now on sale! You can get 30% off a signed edition at the link below. 🔥📕
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🥳 My new Stoicism book is FREE on Kindle until June 8th! Get your 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚 copy of "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘘𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴" at the link below. I hope you love it! 🏛️
👉
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"But if your task is bearable, then bear it. Don’t wish that you didn’t have to build the path; instead, be grateful that you have the strength to lift the stones. Find joy in the job you’ve been given."
#stoicism
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𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨
Today, at last, I escape your grasp—
Or rather, I choose to remove you . . .
For within me were your hazards laid,
Dressed up as rightness and virtue.
I’ll always love your brightest facets—
Sparks that forged more noble worlds;
But I refuse to greet my
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Humanity is on the edge of an unprecedented transformation. Here's how Stoic thinking can help us embrace the coming AI revolution & thrive in a vastly different world. 🏛🔥
#Stoicism
#AI
#Philosophy
#technology
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Great opening paragraphs in this National Library of Medicine article from Mikhail
@Blagosklonny
. . .
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Super excited to get my hands on this advance copy of
@DonJRobertson
's new book! Already started reading it. 😎
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Watching my recent appearance on the
@ViaStoica
podcast with
@Benny_ViaStoica
&
@BogglesTheStoic
. . . I had to pause and tape up a reminder to myself for future interviews. 😂 (Great job though guys, your whole production is terrific!)
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Taking about a few important lessons I've learned from
#Stoicism
on the
@ViaStoica
podcast. 🏛️ 🔊
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I screenshot passages I want to remember & scroll through them periodically. Saw this one tonight & was sure it was from Marcus Aurelius, but couldn't find it anywhere! Finally realized it's from 'How to Think Like a Roman Emperor' by
@DonJRobertson
. Such a great bit of writing.
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A peek inside the F-150 of a modern-day
#Stoic
. I get so much reading done when I'm waiting to pick up kids from school every day, it's great 🏛️🔥
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Absolutely love this!
@mcgillmd921
does some amazing 3D printing, and he sent me this beautiful Marcus Aurelius bust. Such a wonderful gift. :)
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Just watched 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘖𝘶𝘵 2 with the kids! I chuckled when Joy used
#Stoicism
to control Anxiety at the end of the movie. 😇
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@Blagosklonny
You're using your obstacle as an opportunity for positive change, and I admire that. Keep up the good work!
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A sneak peek at a few pages from my next book! I'm receiving final proofs this week, and it might be a available for sale at the end of the month. I put a year of work into this, excited to share it with everyone. 🔥🏛️
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Sorry Seneca, but that's one thing 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 ends up succeeding at . . . even 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 a tutorial. ☠️
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Human beings are the same joyful, resilient, imperfect people today that we were 100 years ago, 1,000 years ago, and 10,000 years ago. We have the same 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭 minds.
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Thanks to
@DonJRobertson
I now know that Hadrian employed a Praetorian guard named "Marcius Turbo." Man, ancient Romans had some cool monikers . . .
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@SeanEcom
That "someone" can be yourself, too. When I first had the idea for SaddleBox, I did a bunch of prep work and research before thinking "I could never do this, it's a dumb idea and I know nothing about starting a business."
It was a year before I stumbled across the folder again
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Marcus Aurelius once wrote "The obstacle is the way." Two millenia later, Michael Caine shares a similar philosophy of life: "Use the difficulty."
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If there's such a thing as "advanced Stoicism," then this concept belongs in that category. It's very hard to internalize, but very powerful for those who are able to.
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This is called 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙞𝙘 𝙈𝙞𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧, and it was created by
@DavidFidelerPhD
(author of 𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘢.) It's an awesome comparison of Stoic vs. non-Stoic traits!
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About a month ago, we published a post on the Stoic Simple blog about how quickly AI is advancing. A few short weeks later, an AI speech generator is released that reads our article for you flawlessly. 🚀
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@Zeus6Luna
I actually stopped aging in the mid-1940s. I was only 18 years old in the 1917 photograph, and was still growing.
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So, what is
#Stoicism
? I had fun making this explainer video for the Stoic Simple site today. I hope you like it!
#Stoic
#philosophy
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This perfectly preserved
#Stoic
Decision Tree was recently unearthed by archeologists at Pompeii, and reveals a tenet of the ancient philosophy that was unseen by human eyes for 2,000 years.
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Talking about the 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭, one of the most important concepts in
#Stoicism
. Only three things are 100% in our control: our 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙨, our 𝙟𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 and our 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙨.
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@OfficialLoganK
Something that just literally watches everything I do all day and chimes in with "wait, why the f*** are you doing it that way, try this way instead"
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Many thanks to reader Ken Koontz for this sincere review of my book 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘘𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 on Amazon! Much appreciated 👍
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@petergyang
I hate when I unsubscribe from an email, then get another email from them telling me I've been unsubscribed and won't get any more emails from them.
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@DonJRobertson
Agreed. But I think people who put
@RyanHoliday
in this category are wrong. He's a spectacular writer & I wouldn't have learned about Stoicism at all if it weren't for him. He's also a great marketer, which inspires some jealousy among modern Stoics (not you of course Donald)
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"It's not things that upset us, but our judgments about things." — Epictetus
Let's take a deeper look at this famous Stoic quote . . . and see why it can change your perspective on life.
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Staring at the sun with my family! So lucky to have the 100%
#totality
line go right through our back yard. Clear skies and great company for
#Eclipse2024
. . . pics can't capture how amazing the experience was. Very grateful to see this with the people I love most! 🌕🌖🌗🌘🌑
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Talking about the common misconception that
#stoicism
teaches we should be "indifferent to the world." (Nope, not true!)
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@herrmanndigital
I realize that anecdotal stuff isn't helpful, but for what it's worth I've seen dramatically better performance for all three of our brands on FB ads over the last several days. Haven't made any changes at all, so it's encouraging!
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Over the past year, I've fine-tuned a simple, 1-sentence description of
#stoicism
- and now it FINALLY feels finished. There's more to the philosophy, but this seems concise, accurate & elegant. (Kudos to
@philosopher70
for inspiration on the 2nd bit, &
@mcgillmd921
on the 3rd.)
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You’ll never catalog every drop of water in the sea, so don’t be distracted by the endless mysteries of the abyss. Instead, focus on the simple, vital task of rowing your boat.
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A special acknowledgement to William B. Irvine &
@DonJRobertson
in 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘘𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴. I've never spoken with them in person, but I'm grateful for the patience they've shown with online questions from entry-level Stoics like me.
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This is pretty funny . . . no clue why Google thinks I should be the only living dude on this list, or why they're showing a 20-year-old picture of me in the Army 😂
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Wow! I learned a lot from 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘈𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘶𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘌𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘳 by
@DonJRobertson
, but this is the most fascinating. Did Marcus really write a book called 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘹𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 and hold a 3-day public discussion for it? So many questions! 😲
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Our four-year-old snuck outside and pooped in the back yard, and he doesn't understand why anyone has a problem with it. He's like "the dog does it, why can't I?" Honestly, he's so proud of himself that I'm thinking he might have a point.
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Fair warning to
@ViaStoica
,
@Benny_ViaStoica
and
@BogglesTheStoic
. . . I'm probably gonna cut this podcast up into a few dozen different shorts & post them over the next few months, so don't feel obligated to re-post every single one 😂
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Here's a list of the most surprising life lessons I've learned from studying
#Stoicism
. I hope they're as helpful to you as they have been to me! 🏛️🔥
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I'll admit it: a lot of philosophy is tough for me to understand, and I can't grasp complex concepts very well unless they're presented as a simile or metaphor. This passage from
@DonJRobertson
on the difference between "advice" and "wisdom" is pure gold for people like me. 👏
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300 downloads of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘘𝘶𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘴 in 3 days! It's still FREE on Kindle until Saturday . . . grab a copy! 🔥📔
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@InDarkness101
What are you implying? Do you think there's some sort of magic machine that can just make pictures of people standing in places they've never really been?
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It's amazing how many life/health/productivity "hacks" from influencers are 100% impossible to implement if you have kids. "Don't keep unhealthy foods in the house and devote three uninterrupted hours to journalling on Sundays" . . . Ok, sure pal
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Thanks to
@BogglesTheStoic
for bringing my attention to this podcast episode with
@DonJRobertson
. Great interview from the
@ViaStoica
team! Donald's discussion about how modern society is still affected by sophists & rhetoric was eye-opening for me. 👀
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Something I've been thinking about a lot recently! It's been so cool getting to know other
#Stoicism
writers, helping them w/projects, & getting help from them. The more successful distributors of philosophy, the better! ⚡
@mcgillmd921
@ViaStoica
@DonJRobertson
@Kasey__Pierce
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"They'll try protesting, boycotting, and even outlawing artificial intelligence. They'll fail . . . but some people will continue being angry about AI for the rest of their lives. Don't be one of those people."
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Best compliment you could give me 20 years ago was "dude, you look like you've been working out." Best compliment you could give me today is "dude, your lawn looks great."
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New mockup for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, scheduled for publication in 2025. I have a complete manuscript, but the illustrations are slow going; 2 out of 21 are done. This is gonna be a very fun, very long project 🔥
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Took about 20 hours of work to construct this! We can find fulfillment in all types of labor . . . but it sure is easier to do when you're building something for your kids. ☺️
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I always keep some of my books in the truck to promote
#Stoicism
, and I was happy to give a few copies to the gentleman who changed my oil at
@Valvoline
today. He was very friendly and spoke proudly of his wife & kiddo . . . I hope they enjoy the books, Adrian! 🔥🏛️
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Walked 3 miles barefoot carrying 25 pounds today . . . 95 degrees, no resting, no water. Took me an hour and a half! I think Cato would say it doesn't count, because I'm bragging on social media. 🏛️☀️
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Talking about how
#Stoicism
has nothing to do with the alpha-male "Broicism" type stuff you see from influencers like
@Cobratate
and
@jordanbpeterson
🏛️💪
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"Dad, I named all 3 heads on my Cerberus dog! This is 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳, this is 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘦𝘳, and this is 𝘚𝘰𝘯-𝘰𝘧-𝘢-𝘉𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩."
I said he did a great job, then suggested that maybe he should name the third head 𝘚𝘰𝘯-𝘰𝘧-𝘢-GUN instead.
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Explaining why I write (and sell)
#Stoicism
books during a recent appearance on the
@ViaStoica
podcast. 📖
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@dtcforbreakfast
Can't beat FB. Their algorithm figured out that my first book sells best to grandparents, and I've been running the same ad for almost two years with no dip in performance.
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My kids came to visit me at work today, and they accidentally locked me out of my office. I turned that challenge into an 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 to learn the proper method for kicking in a door! (Thank you to my employee Lillian for filming this insanity.) 🚪💥
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@DonJRobertson
I really can't understand the need people have to upset themselves about stuff that has literally zero impact on their lives. (These people exist in all political camps, it seems.) I don't know where drag shows even take place, why would I care if they're allowed to happen.
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Someone ordered 70 copies of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘵 today; our largest single-person order ever. To Lisa in NY: thanks for your purchase! 🥳
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It took several hours to create this 4-second intro for a new project, and I love it! I created the little Marcus Aurelius character in Photoshop, and animated the scene frame-by-frame in Premiere Pro (no AI). I love teaching myself new skills, this was lots of fun. 👍
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“We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing and to not let it upset our state of mind, for things have no natural power to shape our judgments.” — Marcus Aurelius
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Hat tip to
@WhatIsStoicism
for featuring 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘪𝘤 𝘍𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬 in their Sunday Snippets section! 👍
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My son has been trying for MONTHS to learn back rolls, and he just did his first one. Great job, kiddo! (It scared him a lot, but he was determined to learn.) 💪
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@LearnerLedLife
@ViaStoica
@Benny_ViaStoica
@BogglesTheStoic
Dude, I would have had to put $17,000 in the jar for that podcast alone
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@JamesClear
It helped me find the discipline I needed to publish my first book, turn my love of Stoic philosophy into a second career, and prioritize my family and fitness. Happy anniversary, and thank you!
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