{"podcast":{"title":"Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)","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/r4fig9TBtCWAsS2j5Xcs2F5bj2BhdAvU3GNP2_RSVBA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81MGM0/NjFhZGE3ZDI1MjZj/ZmJkMzEwNjQ1NGI3/YTRkMy5wbmc.jpg","author":"J.W. Bertolotti","episode_count":166,"summary":"Dying Every Day is a newsletter and podcast about mortality, wisdom, discipline, attention, Stoicism, and the art of living. This is a place for meditations for mortals—reflections for people trying to live the Stoic virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice in the time they have been given. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-10T16:19:21.028613+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387"},"episode":{"title":"Day 155: Resist and Persist - The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline | Dying Every Day","slug":"day-155-resist-and-persist-the-stoic-art-of-self-discipline-dying-every-day","published_at":"2026-07-16T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/day-155-resist-and-persist-the-stoic-art-of-self-discipline-dying-every-day","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/57ea7e75","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/57ea7e75/82559183.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 155. This week's episode is something a little different. Over the past few months, I've been building an audio course called \"Resist and Persist: The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline.\" And I wanted you to hear the introduction. Mostly because the argument it makes stands on its own, and I think it's the most useful thing I've written this year: that if you've failed at self-discipline and everyone listening to this has, it's probably not a character flaw. It was a sequencing error. You were working on the right problem in the wrong order. [...] --- 🖇️ 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 155. This week's e…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":747,"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-155-resist-and-persist-the-stoic-art-of-self-discipline-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-155-resist-and-persist-the-stoic-art-of-self-discipline-dying-every-day.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}