All The Roads We Have To Walk Are Winding
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🗓️ 18 February 2022
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Ryan talks about the twists and turns that will make you great if you choose.
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| 0:53.6 | All the roads we have to walk are winding. |
| 0:57.7 | Senka was privileged early, born to a rich and successful family. All was well until |
| 1:03.0 | illness cut him down just as his promise in career began. It was a long way back 10 years |
| 1:08.6 | of convalescence in Egypt, spoiled by a tragic shipwreck that killed his uncle, then came |
| 1:14.4 | exile, then neuro, then exile again. The last years of his life were a mad sprint to produce |
| 1:19.9 | his best philosophical works. Marcus Aurelius lost his father young only to find two new |
| 1:25.9 | fathers in Hadrian and Antoninus. He was primed to take the throne, only then to sit and |
| 1:32.4 | waiting for 23 years. All of those years of peace and prosperity disappeared moments after |
| 1:38.4 | he became emperor. Power brought him plagues and invasions, floods and uprisings. He died |
| 1:44.7 | likely wondering if he had been a disappointment, not knowing that 2,000 years later his private |
| 1:50.4 | philosophical writings would still be changing lives for the better. |
| 1:55.0 | We could go on for the lives of Musonius Rufus, Rutilius, or Portiacato are more of the |
| 2:00.8 | same. I do go into depth in them in lives of the Stoics, if you haven't read it. |
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