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Jun 2022
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The Best Leaders Are the Reluctant Ones ...

Daily Stoic | Wondery
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Ryan talks about the qualities of a great leader, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal. The Daily Stoic Leadership Challenge is a 9-week course that was built to mirror the kind of education that produced historically great leaders like Marcus Aurelius. It is now a recorded course, which means all participants will join the course a ... Show More
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