Dying Every Day (Stoicism in a Year)

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Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 139.

The alarm goes off. You reach for your phone. Not because you need toā€”just because itā€™s there. 

Nothing urgent. Nothing necessary.

And when you finally get up, the pull remains. Not toward stillnessā€”but toward more stimulation. More noise. More distraction.
This is the quiet pattern of most days: not crisis, not collapseā€”just a gradual movement away from what matters. It usually happens in two directions. Idleness and indulgence. [...]

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Dying Every Day is a podcast by the Perennial Leader Project. Each episode turns a selected passage from Stoic philosophy into a guided meditation designed to help you (and me) contemplate what it means to live a ā€˜goodā€™ life. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.