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

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

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

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Speaker 1: ancient stoic philosophy with lyrics and quotes from some of

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Speaker 1: the greatest to ever grace a microphone. 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. Now today focusing all around the stoic idea

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Speaker 1: of practicing gratitude and the record that I chose to

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Speaker 1: talk about today display this idea of gratitude. It is

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite records here in the club. It

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Speaker 1: is Coffee Toast And just a disclaimer, this is like

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Speaker 1: a dance hall record. Okay, I am going to probably

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Speaker 1: be very cringey as I read you some of the

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Speaker 1: interpret it in a different way, so I'll be cringe

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Speaker 1: just for this quote. But here we are now in it,

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Speaker 1: they say, yeah, we give thanks like we need it

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Speaker 1: the most. We have to give thanks like we're really

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Speaker 1: supposed to be thankful. Blessings upon me life, me, thank

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Speaker 1: God for the journey, the earnings a just feed the plus. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: gratitude is a must. Yeah we see blessings fall by

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Speaker 1: me right hand? All right, cringe moment over. I just

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Speaker 1: felt like if I if I translated it into like whatever,

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Speaker 1: But in this record, she's saying, be grateful and then

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Speaker 1: watch you as the blessings fall into your hand. It

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Speaker 1: goes in in tandem. And I feel like I'm beating

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Speaker 1: and I think that it is the thing that so

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Speaker 1: we find gratitude once we've obtained whatever it is that

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Speaker 1: path is going to be a far more difficult, But

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Speaker 1: be your dreams may never come if you are constantly

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Speaker 1: the methodology of a philosopher. And he's not a stoic,

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Speaker 1: but somebody that I think is worth noting Nevill Goddard,

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Speaker 1: And a quote from him that I thought was really

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Speaker 1: sort of connected to what we're talking about today, he says,

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Speaker 1: capable of being. Do not question whether you are worthy

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Speaker 1: I'm not over the religious person. We can interchange the

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Speaker 1: I've talked to you a bit about the delusional life

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Speaker 1: So today we've been talking all about the idea of

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Speaker 1: have heard from the scholar Nevill Goddard. I talk to

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Speaker 1: those are two very different mentalities. Hoping means that you

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Speaker 1: that's giving me the clarity to then create what I

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Speaker 1: afford this dream house that I'm envisioning. Right, it's that

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Speaker 1: gratitude as if I already have it that then lights

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Speaker 1: in the work. Now, with that said, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for checking out the Street Stoke Podcast. Do your

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Speaker 1: best to apply these concepts that we discuss into everyday life,

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Speaker 1: and I will catch you next time. The Street Stoke

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