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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a

meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life.

And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known and obscure, fascinating and powerful.

With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast.

This week was crazy for me. I've told you I've been working on this bookstore for, you know, the last 15 months has been crazy with the pandemic.

One side of it is the bookstore. The other side is a record store. The record store asks for records. It's a great little record store, small town.

They were hosting a benefit for Kasa, which is a charity for abused children. We had them across both buildings. We did this charity benefit.

All these dark months of whether it would work, whether the store would ever open, whether it was a Cosmio fortune, and I was going to barely get out alive.

So having the books or open was one thing. And then having this event, you know, which you could safely do because of vaccines.

I felt it was just incredible, but a friend of mine came and he walked in. He had known that I was opening the story.

He didn't know anything about what we're doing. He just showed up. He walks in and he's just like his jaws on the floors.

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