{"podcast":{"title":"Dying Every Day (Stoicism in a Year)","slug":"dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387","podcast_index_feed_id":7153387,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year","website_url":"https://perennial.substack.com/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/wz3SLmUQT4iGh-OtEmkUgeMB64gw5xrJJLUJ5JQck9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xODg1/YTFjM2E1ZjMwNWNk/NDM1M2NmZWFhZTc5/ZmRlOC5wbmc.jpg","author":"J.W. Bertolotti","episode_count":152,"summary":"Dying Every Day is a podcast by the Perennial Leader Project. Each episode turns a selected passage from Stoic philosophy into a guided meditation designed to help you (and me) contemplate what it means to live a ‘good’ life. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387"},"episode":{"title":"Day 145: Why You React Before You Think—And What to Do About It | Dying Every Day","slug":"day-145-why-you-react-before-you-think-and-what-to-do-about-it-dying-every-day","published_at":"2026-05-06T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/day-145-why-you-react-before-you-think-and-what-to-do-about-it-dying-every-day","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/c79188d1","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/c79188d1/ca28fd43.mp3","summary":"📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 145. Epictetus identified three key disciplines: desire, action, and assent, with assent being the most crucial. He described assent as the mind’s act of accepting an impression—saying yes to it, recognizing it as real and meaningful, and responding accordingly. Every moment, impressions arrive. Not the dramatic ones—those are easy to see coming. The ones that test the discipline are smaller and faster. [...] --- 🖇️ Stay Connected: Newsletter: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations --- 🦉 Additional Resources: Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archive Listen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts","meta_description":"📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 145. Epictetus ide…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":724,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/episodes/day-145-why-you-react-before-you-think-and-what-to-do-about-it-dying-every-day/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/day-145-why-you-react-before-you-think-and-what-to-do-about-it-dying-every-day.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}