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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, I am Dramas and this is the Street

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Speaker 1: Stoic Podcast, bringing you your daily dose of timeless stoic

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Speaker 1: philosophy remixed for the hip hop generation. Now, with that

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Speaker 1: in mind, let's get things started with your daily shot

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Speaker 1: of inspiration. So today's stoic principle that we're gonna be

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Speaker 1: focusing on is the idea of memental maori right, and

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Speaker 1: it is basically a reminder of death right, a reminder

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Speaker 1: that death is in fact inevitable. And a song that

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Speaker 1: that I felt like really kind of represent to this,

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Speaker 1: and specifically a coup bars from it is the track

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Speaker 1: Life Should Go On by Big Sean. And the quote

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Speaker 1: that I pulled from this that I thought was really

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Speaker 1: fitting into this idea of momental Maori and the reminder

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Speaker 1: of our limited time here on this earth. The line says,

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Speaker 1: chasing money in the city of crime cash back, So

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Speaker 1: then it's black bags under my eyes. Man, fuck it,

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Speaker 1: I got a dream worth more than my sleep. I

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Speaker 1: especially love that last line right there where he says

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Speaker 1: I got a dream worth more than my sleep. And listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm not one of these toxic, you know, productivity people

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Speaker 1: who is telling you that you should be sleeping less,

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Speaker 1: you know, and not taking care of yourself. But I'm

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Speaker 1: merely just pointing out the fact that if you look

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Speaker 1: at highly successful people, the people that maybe you idolize,

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Speaker 1: that you look up to, that are doing the things

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Speaker 1: that you want to do, you have to take note

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Speaker 1: on the fact that they are to make so much

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Speaker 1: happen throughout the course of a day, you know, with

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Speaker 1: the same amount of hours at both you and I have, right,

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Speaker 1: and there's a level of discipline and dedication that you

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Speaker 1: have to have in order to make things happen, you know.

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Speaker 1: And again I'm not saying do it at the expense

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Speaker 1: of your own health. But where can you create more time? Right?

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Speaker 1: What things can you cut out of your everyday life

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Speaker 1: to give you some more time to chase after your dreams,

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Speaker 1: your goals, the things that are important to you. You know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it means less time you know, watching TV, maybe

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Speaker 1: it means less time playing video games, whatever it may be.

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Speaker 1: Where is the extra time that you can use to

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Speaker 1: devote to making your dreams coming true? And it's with

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Speaker 1: an idea in mind that our time is quickly ticking

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Speaker 1: away and the reality is none of us know when

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Speaker 1: in fact, our time here on this earth will be up, right,

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Speaker 1: So that's why you have to move with some sort

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Speaker 1: precious time on this earth. And that's what what Shawn

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Speaker 1: is saying in this quote, and it it lends itself

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Speaker 1: perfectly to a quote from one of the stoics, you know, Seneca.

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Speaker 1: He says, quote, let us prepare our minds as if

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Speaker 1: we'd come to the very end of life. Let us

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Speaker 1: postpone nothing, let us balance life's books each day. The

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Speaker 1: one who puts the finishing touches on their life each

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Speaker 1: day is never short of time. And the main thing

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Speaker 1: I take away from this, right is the idea and

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Speaker 1: we've heard this quote you know before, and this sort

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Speaker 1: of ideal in various ways, but the idea of never

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Speaker 1: leaving something for tomorrow that you could accomplish today, right,

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Speaker 1: And that's basically what Seneca is saying. You know, never

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Speaker 1: end your day in the mindset of you know what

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Speaker 1: I have tomorrow to do this? Right, You're selling yourself

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Speaker 1: short at that point. And again I'm not saying at

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Speaker 1: the expense of your health. And we all have various

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Speaker 1: responsibilities that we have to take care of in this life,

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Speaker 1: in this world. But with that in mind, what more

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Speaker 1: could you be doing right? What things can you be

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Speaker 1: them off for tomorrow. You know, you have to remind

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Speaker 1: yourself tomorrow is not promised, So why would you put

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Speaker 1: Have that discipline to look at what is in front

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Speaker 1: of you and what you could do right now, rather

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Speaker 1: than just postponing things for a later date and then

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Speaker 1: a later date in a later date. It is all

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Speaker 1: about discipline. That's how you reach your goals, right. That's

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Speaker 1: what Sean is talking right there. You know, his goal

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Speaker 1: is making a ton of money, and maybe that's not

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Speaker 1: he's also showing the urgency that now is the time

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Speaker 1: I work in a unique industry where you really do

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Speaker 1: have a shelf life, right. The entertainment industry is often

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Speaker 1: a young person's game, right, and the reality is that

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Speaker 1: you know, you have a really small window most people

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Speaker 1: do as to when you are you know hot, right,

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Speaker 1: You're only hot for but so long, and the certain

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Speaker 1: last forever. So you have to take advantage of each

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Speaker 1: because you don't know if those opportunities are going to

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Speaker 1: and that's how I've built my career, you know, as

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Speaker 1: being the person who is ready to to get to

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Speaker 1: than the last one. Right, it was my tenacity to

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Speaker 1: say yes the opportunities, to never put things off to

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Speaker 1: being okay with you know, taking that meeting today rather

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Speaker 1: to something even bigger down the line. Right. It's that tenacity,

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Speaker 1: that urgency of living life that has allowed me again

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Speaker 1: sense of urgency to happen in your life, you also

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Speaker 1: have to have clarity on what exactly you want. Right.

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Speaker 1: I reference, you know, Sean wanting to obtain a lot

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Speaker 1: to where he's going to put this energy that he

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Speaker 1: has of not wasting the day right. And for me,

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Speaker 1: it was about, you know, building a life that gave

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Speaker 1: me autonomy, that gave me freedom, that gave me control

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Speaker 1: over my everyday life. So I put my energy each

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Speaker 1: but you have to have that clarity on what exactly

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Speaker 1: you want, and that's when you put your foot to

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Speaker 1: with it, understanding that your time here is limited and

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Speaker 1: we've heard from Big Sean, we have heard from Seneca,

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Speaker 1: it starts with, you know, the idea of of no

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Speaker 1: And again we've all heard that, but these are are

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Speaker 1: really just incredibly important fundamentals and cornerstones to keep in

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Speaker 1: that means you know, send that email, have that conversation

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Speaker 1: the trigger on that business. Right. There's definitely no right

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Speaker 1: what means, stop binge watching Netflix, you know, and and

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Speaker 1: go and create something that you enjoy, learn something, do

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Speaker 1: the idea of a mental moor. The representation that we

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Speaker 1: But at the same time, the idea of death is

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Speaker 1: an incredibly beautiful thing because it should be a motivator

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Speaker 1: there is at some point an expiration date, right, And

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Speaker 1: that's the greatest gift of all of knowing that time

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Speaker 1: allows us to to really appreciate, you know, and when

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Speaker 1: want to thank y'all for checking out the Street Stoic podcast. Now,

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Speaker 1: do your best to apply these concepts that that we're

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