You Come From This

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. You come from this. You have it pretty good. We all do. We have modern conveniences.

You live in a time of relative peace. Your basic living standards are the greatest in human history and expected lifespan is among the longest. So it is easy to get spoiled. It's also easy to assume that you are spoiled and soft, especially compared to the ancient Greeks and Romans or even our own ancestors. Think of how tough our predecessors were, the great David McCullough writes in his short book History Matters, which you should definitely read.

We carry it in the painted porch. I loved it. He said, think of what they had been through. There's no one who hasn't an ancestry who went through some kind of hell. They all did.

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