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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice and wisdom into the real world. Change is hard. That's why we avoid it. It's easier when things stay the same, when we have familiar ways and routines. Our morning coffee, our job, the way we learned it, where no news is good news. Change, on the other hand, requires adjustment. It requires acceptance. It requires us to change. So naturally, yeah, we avoid it. We fear it. But as Marcus Aurelius points out to those of us who are frightened by change, nothing could exist without it. And you know what else change is? It's growth. Or at least it is the opportunity for growth. Without change, we stagnate. Our minds grow complacent, ignorant to new ideas. Our bodies grow weak from disuse. We remain stuck. We lack clarity. We, as part of the world, part of nature, part of the logos, need to change in order to maintain our well being. With the new cycle of spring, of regrowth and renewal finally upon us, it is time to change. It's time to listen to the rhythm of the seasons, to begin afresh, to grow back stronger than before. Foreign. Well, here we are, well into a new year, and it's worth taking some stock. Who do you want to be this year? What changes do you want to make? How could you be better? That's where today's sponsor comes in. And it's where something I have been doing myself now, I guess, since college, which is working on myself with a therapist. And although I used to when I lived in la, drive an hour in traffic to sit down in someone's office for an hour now I do it on the phone, I do it while I'm walking, I do it in the car. I do my therapy online. And BetterHelp is the world's largest online therapy platform. And I'm not the only one. More than 6 million people have gotten help through BetterHelp. It's just easier to keep the appointment. It's less of an imposition, cheaper, it's more efficient. 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It was like 84 on Friday here in Austin, and then it was rainy and wet and cold all weekend. As I'm recording it now, it's I got a sweatshirt on and got muddy boots by the back door. In Austin we have something called false fall and false spring. It's hard to know exactly the transitions of the seasons. We have some false starts. But even to be there, right? Even to be here where the clocks have just changed is a reminder that time is flying, right? There's not that much left of winter and spring is basically right here. I was in Phoenix. I was just finishing up that run of four dates. And by the way, we also just announced five more dates in the US and five in New Zealand and Australia. You can grab tickets for that at dailystokelive. Com. I hope to see you. I think San Francisco and Portland. I think there's Minneapolis, Detroit. I'm forgetting some of the others. Where have we got? We've got Sydney, Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth. They're all there. Dailystokelive.com if you want those dates. But anyways, while I was in Phoenix, I guess this would have been two weeks ago by the time you're Hearing this. And that was one of the things that I talked about with them. I'll just play that right, because if you're anything like me or them, you had a rough go of it the last couple months.