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

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Speaker 1: your daily dose of timeless stoic philosophy remixed for the

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Speaker 1: hip hop generation. Now we are combining ancient philosophy with

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Speaker 1: lyrics and quotes from some of the greatest ever grace

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Speaker 1: a microphone. Now with that in mind, man, let's get

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Speaker 1: things started with your daily shot of inspiration. So today

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Speaker 1: we are practicing the ancient stoic philosophy of resilience when

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Speaker 1: faced with obstacles, failure or tragedy. And man, for me,

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Speaker 1: unquote that comes to mind. One lyric that comes to mind,

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Speaker 1: I mean from one of the greatest to ever do it,

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Speaker 1: of course, Jay Z, that I think fits this so perfectly.

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Speaker 1: This is off of the blueprint too. And the line

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Speaker 1: that I love when it comes to this is but

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Speaker 1: I will not lose, for even in defeat, there is

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Speaker 1: a valuable lesson learned. I love that when we're talking

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Speaker 1: about obstacles, right, or failure or tragedy, you know, some

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Speaker 1: of the most difficult moments in our lives, you know,

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Speaker 1: be it personal being career wise. I'm sure any one

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Speaker 1: of you listening right now can think back to a

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Speaker 1: time or maybe you're going through a time in your

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Speaker 1: life right now where things just aren't working out the

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Speaker 1: way that you had planned. Right, And I think that

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Speaker 1: it's easy for us to cower in defeat in those moments.

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Speaker 1: It's easy for us to to beat ourselves up, or

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Speaker 1: things aren't working out the way that we hope they would. Right.

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Speaker 1: But when you allow your mind to flip, right, when

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Speaker 1: you apply this historic philosophy of practicing resilient, And in

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Speaker 1: this lyric with j right, he's saying, for even in defeat,

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Speaker 1: there's a valuable lesson learned. Right. So, even in your

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Speaker 1: your worst moments, even when things don't work out the

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Speaker 1: way that you anticipate in them, too, there's still something

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Speaker 1: incredibly valuable you can take away from those moments, right,

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Speaker 1: something that you can apply for the rest of your life.

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Speaker 1: And what's incredible when we talk about this idea of

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Speaker 1: mixing hip hop with philosophy, it's ideas that continue on

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Speaker 1: for hundreds and hundreds of years. I mean, let's take

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Speaker 1: one of the stokes, Marcus Aurelius, right, his quote very

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Speaker 1: similar to jay Z. He says, the obstacle in your

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Speaker 1: way is but a stepping stone on your journey, right,

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Speaker 1: and let's think about that. Let's break down the idea

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Speaker 1: of a stepping stone. You know, in the simplest form,

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Speaker 1: what is a stepping stone? It is something that elevates you,

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Speaker 1: that allows you to continue on your path. Right, And

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Speaker 1: when you look at the obstacles in your life, you know,

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Speaker 1: the various letdowns, the disappointments, and when you're able to

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Speaker 1: view them as learning lessons, when you're able to view

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Speaker 1: them as new opportunities for something unplanned. You know, when

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Speaker 1: you're able to explore what you can take away from

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Speaker 1: from those moments, you realize that they are just an

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Speaker 1: aid on your journey. And that's just such an incredibly

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Speaker 1: beautiful and profound way to look at these inevitable moments

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Speaker 1: in our lives. You know, I think about my own

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Speaker 1: story and why this principle relates so much to me

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Speaker 1: and why I feel it so much in my core.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's let's talk about podcasting. You know, for

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Speaker 1: know me from my life as a gringo podcast. But

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Speaker 1: I've done I think at this point for other podcasts

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Speaker 1: prior to Life as a Gringo, right, and all failures,

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Speaker 1: each podcast failed, each new idea. Right, But the beauty

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Speaker 1: even beyond just learned lessons, if you look at the

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Speaker 1: could have even expected. I mean, and let's let's even

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Speaker 1: take into account outside of careers, let's talk about personal relationships.

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Speaker 1: You know, why is is dating so important? You know,

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Speaker 1: even college. You know, you're finding out what you like,

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Speaker 1: And the only way to truly find that out is

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Speaker 1: to go through the experience and to inevitably, you know,

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Speaker 1: have some failed relationships, but again they are all learning

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Speaker 1: You know, you have to view life as the ability

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Speaker 1: to constantly learn something new from each and every experience

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Speaker 1: that happens to you know, good or bad. Again, there

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Speaker 1: are lessons and absolutely everything that we do and everything

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Speaker 1: All right, So you have heard the words of jay Z,

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Speaker 1: I can look for the new opportunity from this obstacle,

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Speaker 1: Jay z Or, a an ancient philosopher who has been

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Speaker 1: I am Dramas And this is the Street Stoke Podcast.

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