This is What You Do With Your Freedom? | A Strong Soul Is Better Than Good Luck

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. This is what you do with your freedom? People fought for this.

To set up this system of government to secure these rights. to wrench us free from a controlling church or an oppressive culture, people fought against the elements, against biology itself to give us this Health, this life expectancy. People have since Prometheus developed technology that frees us from backbreaking drudgery and toil. And what do you do with this freedom, this incredible bounty?

You spend it fiddling on your phone, you spend it obsessing over what other people have, you spend it gossiping about nonsense. You spend it being afraid or lazy, failing to put yourself out there or be yourself? You take drugs, you drink too much, you spend it procrastinating, doing the same things you've always done? You spend it complaining. Wishing that things were better.

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