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

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

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Speaker 1: remix for the hip hop generation. We are combining ancient

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Speaker 1: philosophy with lyrics and quotes from some of the greatest

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Speaker 1: who ever grace a microphone. Now, with that in mind,

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Speaker 1: let's get the season one finale underway with your daily

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Speaker 1: shot of inspiration now today, it only felt appropriate, you know,

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Speaker 1: being that this is the end of season one, it

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Speaker 1: only felt appropriate to center this show around the idea

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Speaker 1: of gratitude. And the lyric that I pulled today was

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Speaker 1: some Ti from the song Live Your Life Right, and

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Speaker 1: he says, what you need to do is be thankful

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Speaker 1: for the life you got, Stop looking at what you

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Speaker 1: ain't got, start being thankful for what you do got

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Speaker 1: and like it all starts with gratitude right at the

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Speaker 1: end of the day. That's what TA is talking about.

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Speaker 1: It's the idea that everything starts with gratitude, right, like

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Speaker 1: living in abundance. Being able to live an abundant life

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Speaker 1: means focusing on what you do have rather than what

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Speaker 1: you don't, right. And this leads perfectly to a stoic

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Speaker 1: quote one from Marcus Aurelius, and he says, take full

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Speaker 1: account of what excellencies you possess, and in gratitude, remember

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Speaker 1: how you would hanker after them if you had them. Not.

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Speaker 1: This is I think, a really incredible kind of proactive practice. Right.

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Speaker 1: It's like slowing down and just take it all in.

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Speaker 1: Take in all the good, all your accomplishments, all you have,

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Speaker 1: he talks about the excellencies that you possess. Because we're

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Speaker 1: as Marcus says, if they were taken away from you,

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Speaker 1: You would be distraught if these things were taken away

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Speaker 1: If these opportunities, these moments were taken away from you,

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Speaker 1: for me, I'm relating to this on the highest level possible,

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Speaker 1: this podcast. You know, this, as I've mentioned before, simply

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Speaker 1: Everything that has gone into us being able to put

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Speaker 1: is incredibly important to value yourself and all that life

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Speaker 1: And thank you to all of you for listening again.

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Speaker 1: Now do your best to apply the concepts that we've

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Speaker 1: season two. Thank you. The Street Stoke Podcast is a

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