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

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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. Alright, So the stoic principle that we're gonna

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Speaker 1: be focusing on today is the idea of practicing resilience

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Speaker 1: through adversity, through all the life's hardships, being able to

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Speaker 1: have the resilience to come out on the other side. Right.

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Speaker 1: And a song and a specific lyric that I thought

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Speaker 1: was perfectly in line with the ancient soulke philosophy is

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Speaker 1: from Tupac, right, and of course one of the goats

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Speaker 1: of hip hop. But this song in particular me against

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Speaker 1: the world. I thought he had a couple of bars

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Speaker 1: in there that that fit this perfectly and kind of

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Speaker 1: put it into perspective. So Tupac says, quote, through every

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Speaker 1: dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no

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Speaker 1: matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep

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Speaker 1: your head up and handle it. And man, those are

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Speaker 1: incredibly powerful words. I think an incredibly powerful song as

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Speaker 1: a whole. If you have a chance to go check

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Speaker 1: it out if you haven't heard before, or haven't heard

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Speaker 1: it in a while, like myself. But I think what

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Speaker 1: he's saying here is understanding that life will inevitably get tough.

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Speaker 1: It does for all of us, right. We all go

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Speaker 1: through different highs and lows throughout the course of our lives.

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Speaker 1: Unexpected things happen, Tragedies happen, you know, things that we

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Speaker 1: wish we could have prevented. All happened, right. But on

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Speaker 1: the flip side of that, inevitably good things will also happen.

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Speaker 1: As long as we keep on persevering and keep on

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Speaker 1: pushing through, right, as long as as we keep showing up, Inevitably,

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Speaker 1: something is bound to work out in our favor, right,

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Speaker 1: much like the sun is always going to come out

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Speaker 1: at some point, right. Doesn't matter how many rainy days

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Speaker 1: we've had in a row, doesn't matter what the weather

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Speaker 1: has been like, cloudy, whatever it is. At some point

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Speaker 1: in time, we can all you know that the sun

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Speaker 1: will make its way back out, right, And I think

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Speaker 1: life kind of works out in that way as well,

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Speaker 1: no matter how many hardships, no matter how many things

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Speaker 1: are thrown at us that we have to deal with

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Speaker 1: on a regular basis, Inevitably, something good is bound to

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Speaker 1: come our way as well, as long as we are

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Speaker 1: open to it, and as long as we are continuing

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Speaker 1: to move on throughout the course of life and not

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Speaker 1: allowing the negative things to stop us or to slow

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Speaker 1: us down for too long. Right. And this to me

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Speaker 1: kind of lends itself also into the quote from one

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Speaker 1: of the Stokes, right, particularly when you talk about the

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Speaker 1: idea of of what Paka is saying here where he says,

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Speaker 1: you know, stick your chest out, keep your head up right,

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Speaker 1: and he's saying, you know, toughen yourself up a little bit, right,

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Speaker 1: And that fits into the stoic quote from Seneca where

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Speaker 1: he says, constant misfortune brings this one blessing to whom

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Speaker 1: it always a sales, it eventually fortifies, right, And that's

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Speaker 1: a fancy way of Seneca saying that no matter what

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Speaker 1: happens to you, the negative things, you know, the constant

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Speaker 1: barrage of of life's bs, that we all have to

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Speaker 1: deal with, those things inevitably make all of us better.

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Speaker 1: They make us stronger, they make us more equipped to

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Speaker 1: handle life. And I think that's what you have to

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Speaker 1: kind of, you know, flip your your mind set to

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Speaker 1: understand that when all these things are coming at you,

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Speaker 1: these inevitable punchers are being thrown by life, they are

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Speaker 1: only making you better and more equipped to handle your

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Speaker 1: life each and every day. I mean, I think back

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Speaker 1: to my own story and how I can personally relate

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Speaker 1: to this philosophy and these quotes. I mean, I've I've

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Speaker 1: have been incredible learning lessons, right, And I think I've

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Speaker 1: gonna hear me telling you more as as a show

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Speaker 1: my personal life today when it comes to this principle. Right,

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Speaker 1: as a kid, I think that I had some great

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Speaker 1: learning lessons that have been very beneficial for me at

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Speaker 1: what do brothers do. They They fight, they argue, you know,

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Speaker 1: toughened me up. You know. It taught me how to

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Speaker 1: It taught me how to not take things personally. And

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Speaker 1: when I think about now where I am working in

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Speaker 1: the entertainment industry and all the various ups and downs

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Speaker 1: and the different big personalities that you have to come

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Speaker 1: up against. And I'm just sort of talking about my

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Speaker 1: own experience, but I know that that's true for probably

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Speaker 1: any industry, right, anybody who's doing anything in this life,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be faced with various types of personalities. But

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Speaker 1: for me, in my story, having this moment when I

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Speaker 1: was younger, where I was, I was toughened up. I

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Speaker 1: and being able to give it right back, and to

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Speaker 1: be able to hold my own in in a very

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Speaker 1: had growing up with my friends, you know, and obviously,

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Speaker 1: like I said, that, that's a lighter experience, and I

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Speaker 1: could have brought up a million one, you know, more

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Speaker 1: serious ones or more man traumatic ones where there there

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Speaker 1: really was some sort of big time moment or or

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Speaker 1: lesson that that was learned. But I think inevitably, even

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Speaker 1: these little moments, they all begin to add up to

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Speaker 1: to excel in this world. And listen, I'm not gonna lie.

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Speaker 1: Like at first, it was jarring, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we have a big age gap. And again she's not

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Speaker 1: a teenage boy, right, so we're not having the same

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Speaker 1: interactions that I'm having with my friend and his brother.

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Speaker 1: And at first they would send me home crying to

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Speaker 1: my my parents over over silly things, right, And I

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Speaker 1: I would quiet myself because I was intimidated by these

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Speaker 1: comfortable in those you know, sort of hostile situations. I

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Speaker 1: qualities that I learned there being toughened up as a

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Speaker 1: those moments gave me the tenacity that I needed to

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Speaker 1: to take a punch, both literally and figuratively. Now, with

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Speaker 1: So we've heard the words from Poc, We've heard the

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Speaker 1: words from one of the ancient stoic Seneca. Now let's

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Speaker 1: talk about how you can make this your mantra for today.

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Speaker 1: And I think it starts with flipping your way of

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Speaker 1: thinking right when when something goes unplanned, when life is

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Speaker 1: horrible to you, when when someone disappoints you understand that

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Speaker 1: all of this is only helping you. It is making

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Speaker 1: you stronger, is making you a much more formidable opponent

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Speaker 1: for the constant battles of life. Don't dwell or sulk,

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Speaker 1: you know, empower yourself by taking note of the lesson

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Speaker 1: to be learned here. You know, declare that that you

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Speaker 1: will not allow this to happen to you again, that

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Speaker 1: that you will not allow this thing or or this

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Speaker 1: person to stop you from achieving all that you want. Right,

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Speaker 1: you have to allow this to reignite the fire inside

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Speaker 1: of you and continue on your journey. And then also understanding,

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Speaker 1: you know, like pac said, the light will inevitably shine right,

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Speaker 1: no matter how difficult of a journey you're on. Right now,

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Speaker 1: maybe you're having one thing tumble on after another. Right,

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Speaker 1: one negative thing is hitting you after another. You have

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Speaker 1: to keep faith because the odds tell us, statistics tell us,

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Speaker 1: you know, the rules of life tell us that inevitably

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Speaker 1: something good will happen. It can't just be bad. The

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Speaker 1: entirety of your of your life, right, your whole existence

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Speaker 1: can't just be one bad thing after another. Something good

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Speaker 1: is inevitable to happen as long as you continue on

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Speaker 1: the journey and continue fighting in this battle of life. Now,

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Speaker 1: with that said, thank you for checking out the Streets

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Speaker 1: Sto Podcast. Do your best to apply these concepts that

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Speaker 1: we talked about today into your everyday life, and I'll

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