Live Now, While You Still Can

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. We're busy, we're tired, we have so much to do. We had dreams once, sure, but they slowly deflated. The mortgage, the kids, the job, watching TV, That's how we fill our days.

It's a slow downward spiral that Bruce Springsteen sang about in Racing in the Street. Some guys, they just give up living, he sang, and start dying little by little, piece by piece. If you're not that guy, you at least know him or her. They're the mainstay of the modern world, overworked, undersexed, overtired. and underappreciated.

Facebook is to blame, right? The capitalist pigs are responsible, yeah? It's because of the twenty four hour news cycle. Certainly none of those things help. But the truth is that this is a timeless problem.

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